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. ...
T H E P I L L was founded in 2016 by Suela J. Cennet in the historic peninsula of Istanbul, to operate as a global platform and mobile vessel for contemporary art, supporting artists through a dynamic of cosmopolitanism beyond the dialectics of center and periphery. Initially envisioned by its founder as a space for an aesthetic of friendship, the gallery's programming is strongly inspired by the history and ideas of utopia and dystopia in modernism, with a particular focus on displacement, diaspora, feminisms, and queer aesthetics as reflected in contemporary artistic practices. ...
