Pablo Valbuena : Site-specific Installations

Extension Series
Site-specific installations
projection on architecture
2008 – present

Puntos de fuga / Vanishing points
Solo exhibition at Max Estrella
Site-specific installations
Sept – Oct 2010

Extension Series
Site-specific installations
projection on architecture
2008 – present

Pablo Valbuena has been linked to tangent fields related to art and architecture developing spatial concepts applied to virtual environments and digital architecture. He is currently developing new ways of using light altering the perception of physical space through projected virtual realities. His work is focused on the temporary quality of space, investigating space-time not only as a three dimensional environment, but as space in transformation, creating a tension between the virtual and the real.

The artist projects a drawing, a map of the space, onto the space itself. The real and the virtual gallery overlap. Pablo´s work is based on tools as old as trompe l’oeil or perspective. He manipulates the audience perception. The space transformation is achieved by movement, light and shadow. Instead of building architectures with physical materials, the projection of lines and planes of light is which creates the illusion of new spaces, redrawing them, extending them, emptying them. The result is a play of light and shadow. Present and absent. Virtual and real. The main idea is to work inside the perception process of the observer, destabilizing the mechanisms of perception. [Extract : Max Estrella Gallery]

Pablo Valbuena : Website

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