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EMBAJADA is pleased to present artist Pablo Delano’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, entitled My Paradise is Hell.
Delano’s latest body of work expands his exploration of Puerto Rico’s visual and colonial histories through a striking series of color photo-composites and assemblage sculptures created from found objects. In these new works, Delano juxtaposes vivid contemporary scenes from popular media —gleaming resorts, cruise ships, sun drenched beaches, as well as humanitarian and environmental disasters—with archival black-and-white photographs depicting moments from the island’s colonial past. The resulting compositions uncover the tensions between Puerto Rico’s (and the greater Caribbean’s) marketed image as a tropical playground and the lingering and complex realities of imperial domination. Through this layered dialogue of images, Delano exposes how the myths of paradise and progress continue to obscure deeper histor…
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EMBAJADA is pleased to present artist Pablo Delano’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, entitled My Paradise is Hell.
Delano’s latest body of work expands his exploration of Puerto Rico’s visual and colonial histories through a striking series of color photo-composites and assemblage sculptures created from found objects. In these new works, Delano juxtaposes vivid contemporary scenes from popular media —gleaming resorts, cruise ships, sun drenched beaches, as well as humanitarian and environmental disasters—with archival black-and-white photographs depicting moments from the island’s colonial past. The resulting compositions uncover the tensions between Puerto Rico’s (and the greater Caribbean’s) marketed image as a tropical playground and the lingering and complex realities of imperial domination. Through this layered dialogue of images, Delano exposes how the myths of paradise and progress continue to obscure deeper histor…
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