Pablo Llana

Pablo Llana (b.1980), lives and works in his home town of Tijuana, Mexico.

He is an arts graduate of the House of Culture of Tijuana. From 2000 to 2002 he was a student of the Artistic Professionalisation Program for Visual Artists (PROPAVIS). He taught at the Humanities Center of Baja California, with the support of CONACULTA, including outstanding artists and professionals such as Felipe Ehrenberg, among others. He has participated in more than 30 local and international collective exhibitions. His most recent solo exhibitions include ‘Sweet Death’ held at the Gallery Art Virus LTD as well as his exhibition Oaxaca from Acá Textile Museum of Oaxaca. Pablo has also exhibited in throughout the United States, Frankfurt and Cuba.

His work is part of the cultural heritage of the Tijuana Cultural Center Museum CECUT. He has obtained honourable mentions in Mexican biennials. Since 2010 Pablo’s work has focused on capitalism and consumerism and includes themes of obesity-identity binomials from multiple viewpoints. His work is a political reflection which tightly joins the critical and social senses. The use of wrappers of junk-food products as a raw material reinforces this message.

The resulting work produces art rich in texture, whose colour palette comes from the plastic discards of poor nourishment. Pablo sees this as the individual consequences of globalisation and one of the scourges of the 21st Century.

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Portfolio: http://pablollana.com/
Instagram: @pablo.llana