Pablo Dávila’s interests and series of works are a constant exploration into space and time consciousness. Informed by science, music, poetry, cognitive sciences and physical phenomena, his works delve into notions of perception, the fleeting nature of time and historical interpretations through forms that are both pared-down and charged with sensorial immediacy. Exploring sentience and subjectivity through an ongoing investigation into perception, time, and spatial consciousness, his practice encompasses a multiplicity of media such as video, sound, electronics, installation, photography, painting, and site-specific interventions.
His poetic gestures traverse the space between sensory perception and cognitive understanding, triggering questions around phenomenology of time and space, and the psychological lens with which we process events in our memory. Dávila constructs environments where perception itself hovers between cognitive understanding and sensory disorientation. His meditative yet incisive approach situates him within the tradition of Latin American conceptualism, offering a subtle critique of how technological regulation and codes of language intervene in, and sometimes replace, embodied perception. ...
