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Pablo Paillole  |  Madrid 1998

BA Fine Art and Theatre, LICA (Lancaster University)

BACKLIT Gallery Funded Studio Resident 2019-2021

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2020 selected artist

Develop Your Creative Practice grant recipient 2021

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artist statement

Pablo Paillole works with moving image, sound, text and photography to explore the relationship between popular culture and politics; fiction and reality; past, present and future. 

Through his audiovisual installations - often personal and inspired by his own Spanish cultural heritage - he asks questions around the concepts of truth, narrative and history using archival media and found footage.

 

His interest in archival media the 'constructedness' of information originally emerged in response to fake news and the way image-making mechanisms condition belief or plausibility. He interrogates the extent to which fictional characters and narratives bleed into the world’s socio-political reality, as well as reinforcing the archive’s authority and power against misinformation. Concerned with these overlapping opposites (fiction and reality, past and present) his practice stands as a necessary form of resilience against fake informational content that has proven to be a key agent in recent elections across the globe.

 

Therefore, Pablo Paillole's interdisciplinary art practice intends to re-interpret the conventional narrative construction processes; to disentangle the media's conglomerate of fictional and factual content; and to fully acknowledge our past in order to understand our present.

exhibitions

2021

Territory - Platform Art Projects (online)

Share Bears - BACKLIT Gallery, Nottingham

New Contemporaries, South London Gallery

2020

Source Materials, Nadir Project Space Brighton

Imaginations in Isolation, online

2019

Brexhibit - MAKE Liverpool

Coordinate - LICA Degree Show
H(u)MAN - Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool

2018

The Briefcase - Resonance FM, London

18-25 - The Herbarium, Lancaster

2017

Left Unattended - Inspire Lancaster
PUBLISH! - Lancaster University Library

awards and residencies

Develop Your Creative Practice (DYCP) fund - Arts Council England (2021) 

New Contemporaries (2020)

Funded Studio Residency - Backlit Gallery (2019-2020)

LICA Achievement Award - Lancaster University (2019)

workshops

'Sunday Spot' family programme, South London Gallery (2021)

'Popular Culture in Contemporary Art', South London Gallery (2021)

Introduction to Adobe Premiere Pro, BACKLIT (2020)

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