PABLO DÁVILA

Pablo Dávila’s interests and series of works are a constant exploration into space and time consciousness. Informed by science, music, poetry, cognitive sciences and physical phenomena, his works delve into notions of perception, the fleeting nature of time and historical interpretations through forms that are both pared-down and charged with sensorial immediacy. Exploring sentience and subjectivity through an ongoing investigation into perception, time, and spatial consciousness, his practice encompasses a multiplicity of media such as video, sound, electronics, installation, photography, painting, and site-specific interventions. 

His poetic gestures traverse the space between sensory perception and cognitive understanding, triggering questions around phenomenology of time and space, and the psychological lens with which we process events in our memory. Dávila constructs environments where perception itself hovers between cognitive understanding and sensory disorientation. His meditative yet incisive approach situates him within the tradition of Latin American conceptualism, offering a subtle critique of how technological regulation and codes of language intervene in, and sometimes replace, embodied perception.

Pablo Dávila (Mexico City, 1985) lives and works in Mexico City. Dávila studied film at Vancouver Film School (Canada). His recent solo exhibitions include Time Moves In One Direction, Memory In Another, MAH Genève (Geneva, 2023); It Comes Out Of Thin Air, Spreads, Shifts, Becomes Something Else, OMR (Mexico City, 2023); Please Call If Anything’s Unclear, THE PILL (Istanbul, 2022); Under one lamp by the day, billions by night, THE PILL (Istanbul, 2019); Ladies & Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space, CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions (San Francisco, 2016). Selected group exhibitions include Still Alive, Aichi Triennale cur. Tobias Ostrander (Nagoya, JP, 2022); INDEX, Museo Marco (Monterrey, MX, 2022); Form Follows Energy, OMR – Lago / Algo (Mexico City, 2022); OTRXS MUNDXS, Museo Tamayo (Mexico City, 2020). Dávila has participated in the Atlantic Center for the Arts residency with Josiah McElheny (2016, Florida, USA).