La Tensión Necesaria

Working from the tensión between what absence means—its void—and what drives us forward as living beings, as collectives, communities, families, and thus social beings, is the central argument of Pablo Pérez Palacio’s recent work, both its point of departure and its arrival. It is telling that, in the art of the past few years, there has naturally re-emerged a kind of existential pan-humanism as a foundational philosophical thought. From this, a space for visual speculation is constructed to help us explain the world—not only formally, communicationally, aesthetically, or bio-politically, but also spiritually. Some artists embark on a narrative path of mythological re-fabulations. Others delve into the most essential and mysterious spaces, where the voice becomes an abstract whisper. This is the path Pablo Pérez Palacio has chosen to chart: an artistic utopia that responds to the questions he, as a human being, asks himself every day.