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Pablo Zuleta Zahr: Event horizon

Pablo Zuleta Zahr is a young Chilean artist working in Berlin.

In the series Madrid Subway, Zuleta Zahr continues his research task on the individuals in public places, scanning them from the underground. After having filmed individuals randomly, the photographer then organizes the images on his computer according to various criteria: sex, age, type and color of clothing. Initially isolated from the mass, the characters are then placed in groups that share identical and stereotyped characteristics. Zuleta Zahr is now interested in constructing intimate psychograms. The individuals are taken out of the context: geography, time and space. They are then digitally regrouped in a generalised dislocation to create new social bonds in a fictitious world.

Pablo Zuleta Zahr: Madrid subway line 3, 2007
42 x 94 cm © Pablo Zuleta Zahr
Photo courtesy of Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain

Deprived of all their individuality, they are joined together only by their resemblance. Zuleta Zahr thus approaches the stakes of globalisation and mass culture, which affect our society.