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Pablo M\u00e9ndez (b. 1988, Buenos Aires) is an artist and curator working between France, Brazil, and Argentina. His work addresses the planetary habitability crisis as a historical and political condition\u2014one that decides, unevenly, which lives are sustained and which are made disposable. He works with human and more-than-human worlds not as metaphor or backdrop, but as realities that insist, collide, and survive through fragile alliances. His practice grows from field encounters, long observation, and collaboration across disciplines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2010, Pablo has developed personal and collective projects shaped by ecological, colonial, and epistemological tensions. His work has been presented at Rencontres de la Photographie d\u2019Arles (2015), FRAC Provence\u2013Alpes\u2013C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur (2015\u20132016), Casa Nacional del Bicentenario (Buenos Aires, 2016), Universidad Nacional de San Mart\u00edn (Buenos Aires, 2019), Matadero Madrid\u2014Puertas Abiertas (2021), Centro Cultural Kirchner\u2014Simbiolog\u00eda. Pr\u00e1cticas art\u00edsticas en un planeta en emergencias<\/em> (2021\u20132022), Investigaciones de futuro<\/em> (Buenos Aires, 2022), documenta fifteen (Kassel, 2022), among others. At documenta fifteen, he collaborated with the Lumbung artist collective La Intermundial Holobiente<\/a> (Argentina), participating on the creation of public programs along with artist Claudia Fontes, Guadalupe Miles and weavers from wich’\u00ed Cultural Center Tewok<\/a>. He had also collaborated with philosopher Paula Fleisner documenting an invitation to non-humans relations to a possible way of reading their collective project the El libro de las diez mil cosas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has received grants from Fondo Nacional de las Artes (Argentina), Fondo Metropolitano de las Artes y de las Ciencias (Buenos Aires), Mecenazgo Cultural, CREA (Matadero Madrid), the Biennial of Moving Image (BIM, Buenos Aires), Fonds de Recherche en Arts (Fonds National de Recherche Scientifique – Belgium), among others. His practice has been supported by residencies at the National Museum of Natural History of France and the Acad\u00e9mie des Beaux-Arts at La Cit\u00e9 Internationale des Arts (Paris, 2023\u20132024). He was awarded with the FNRS – FRS \/ FRArts 2024-2026 (B\u00e9lgique) research-creation grant for his ongoing research Jaguar Worlds<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He will take part in the Art Explora residency program in Vila 31 (Tirana, Alabania, 2026), entangling historical memory practices, with fireflies living in the ruins of soviet empire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pablo graduated from the \u00c9cole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure de la Photographie (Arles, 2015). His work has been shaped by formative exchanges with Alan Talgham, Valeria Gonz\u00e1lez, Vinciane Despret, Thibault de Meyer, Anne-Lise Dauphin\u00e9-Morer, Dalila Puzzovio, Marine Fauch\u00e9 and Claudia Fontes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ph. Marine Fauch\u00e9, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My practice is also held by what I call an<\/em> Affective Net \u2014 a web of intra-actions, in the sense Karen Barad gives to that term, and of the living web Starhawk names as the ground of all political and creative practice. These are the people whose thinking, presence, and care are woven into everything I make:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alan Talgham<\/a>, Alejandro Erbetta<\/a>, Aniara Rodado<\/a>, Numa Benyayer, Albane Lamoril<\/a>, Apolline Lamoril<\/a>, Nathanael Abeille<\/a>, Nicola Noemi,<\/a> Karina Juarez, Calibre Lab<\/a>, Tania Puente<\/a>, Mercedes Claus,<\/a> Candela Sotos<\/a>, Valeria Gonz\u00e1lez<\/a>, Gonzalo Aguilar<\/a>, Claudia Fontes<\/a>, Camille Sonally<\/a>, Marine Fauch\u00e9, Leonello Zamb\u00f3n<\/a>, Investigaciones del Futuro<\/a>, Colectiva observadora de aves feministas<\/a>, Colectiva Materia,<\/a><\/a>Michelle Mendez<\/a>, Sof\u00eda Calvano<\/a>, Revista Hipersensible,f kurch<\/a>, La Intermundial Holobiente<\/a>, Marina Pampin, Daniela Stubb-Levi<\/a>, Alfredo Coloma<\/a>, Editorial Cactus,<\/a> Colectiva Materia, Paula Fleisner, Juan Marcos, Guadalupe Miles, Gayatri Kodikal, Mizuho Yamazaki, Florestan\u00eda, Azucena Castro, Carolina Herman, that I’m sure, it will continue to extend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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