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
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
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)
radio interventions
Mapping Millennial Struggles - ArtWorkExeter (2020)
Art School Survivors - Season 1 Episode 10 (2020)
Art On Air: The Gentle Art of Talking to Strangers - Resonance FM, London (2019)
published writing
A hundred years of Esperpento: ‘Bohemian Lights’ in the pandemic era, The Diplomat in Spain (2020)
Necesidad de un marco legal para profesiones artísticas y órgano financiador de las artes en España, Proyecto Galaxxia (2020)
Down the Orwellian Memory Hole of Britain, New Contemporaries (2020)