Pablo Tut
About
Pablo Tut (Campeche, México) was born in the Peninsula of Yucatan, Mexico, of Mayan ancestry. He works as an artist, independent curator, and cultural manager in the United States and Mexico.
Tut’s artwork spans through multiple media such as drawing, sculpture, installation art, and cultural management. He works with designing spaces that expand the possibilities of perception in public spaces—generating dynamics of spatial and ideological contrast, like oriels or constructions that are dislocated from the place they inhabit, creating new spaces to gather around and watch.
Tut’s main interest in artistic production is its capacity of involving the spectator in unstable and ephemeral positions—as a way of questioning the biopolitical and neo-colonial structures latent in our lives.
Maintenance Actions
A “traspatio” was enabled as a discussion forum for peninsular artists with the objective of holding conversations about the problems that exclude Peninsular artists from the production of art. In the center of the installation, there was a sculpture with a grill that was used to make and share food. The intention was to not only care for the conversations to happen, but to care for how the discussion is carried out, generating an atmosphere that eases an emphatic and relaxed conversation. This was a sensitive space to the problems of local cultural agents that for economic need, have at some point left art production for a job, also generating discussions around the colonial thoughts that shapes many of our spaces and conversations about art. All of the conversations were recorded to generate an archive, and in each new meeting, an edited version was played for all to listen, to continue the discussion. This listening exercise aims to gather critical positions and ideas as a way to auto-determine art production under our specific circumstances that differ from centralized art scenes.
*Images and words taken directly from the artist’s website with permission.
