Sculpture – Pablo Rasgado

Synthesis

Synthesis is a series of sculptures that construct an intimate yet universal portrait of the human body. Departing from conventional ideas of representation, the project approaches portraiture as a philosophical and material inquiry into the body’s elemental structure. Conceived

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After obtaining a series of classified documents, the artist translated the redacted fragments into architectural blueprints for the construction of three-dimensional structures. The censored blocks of text were thus transformed into volumes that reveal seemingly recognizable spaces: fences, doors,

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The unbribable witness of history

After removing the structural columns of an edification, the rebar was twisted to perform a knot and was installed in the exact same place where the columns used to be.

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Anulación

After the Micro migration phe- nomena that occurred in Tijuana due to an increase on violence, a large number of abandoned constructions where left in the city. All the accesses of one of the many semi-abandoned buildings, where covered using

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A tooth for an eye

Ojo por diente consists of a sculptural project which debates the ultimate relationship of naturalization of social forms. It emphasizes on the aesthetic sense of cultural history in relation to the deterioration of an object’s function, in this case,

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Sobreposición

Sobreposición is an evolving investigation into the layered histories embedded within architectural remnants. Through this project, Pablo Rasgado transforms discarded drywall fragments from institutional exhibitions into intricate, site-specific installations that operate simultaneously as artworks, museographic designs, and platforms for

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Assisted levitation

Rasgado’s Assisted levitation series invites viewers into a space where objects—branches, feathers, tree bark, stones—are delicately suspended within glass jars, held in a state of apparent weightlessness by the nearly invisible tensile strength of spiderwebs. In this paradoxical arrangement,

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