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CULT | Aimee Friberg Exhibitions
May 13 - June 25, 2016Info
3191 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94110 Google Map »Reception
May 13, 2016 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Image Credits (from left): Pablo Dávila, Oblique approach, 2016, Glass and video projector; At all times, 2016, Mirror and video projector.
CULT | Aimee Friberg Exhibitions is pleased to present Ladies & Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space, a solo exhibition of light installations, sculpture and architectural interventions by Mexico City based artist Pablo Dávila. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States. Dávila explores sentience and subjectivity through investigations in perception, space and time consciousness. His practice takes many shapes-- encompassing video, electronics, light installation, photography, conceptual painting and site-specific interventions. Utilizing a minimalist reductive approach, Dávila traverses the space in between sensory perception and cognitive understanding. His poetic gestures trigger a questioning of our expectations in dealing with the passing of time, and the psychological lens with which we process events in our memory.
For Ladies & Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space, Dávila isolates conventional architectural materials- exposing the essential fundamental character and high-jacking the intended functionality, injecting a new reading with psychological, phenomenological, spiritual and cultural references. With this new body of work, Dávila makes reference to several distinct (but arguably, parallel) perspectives of time consciousness. He draws namely from the works of philosopher and communications theorist Marshall McLuhan, Tibetan Buddhist practitioner and yogi Milrepa, minimalist American composer Steve Reich and the aging technology of UNIX timestamp.
Pablo Dávila (b. 1983, Mexico City) has exhibited at Travesia Cuatro (Guadalajara), FIFI Projects (Monterrey), FIFI Projects (Mexico City), Sala Juarez (Guadalajara), SALÓN ACME (Mexico City), and at ACME (Brooklyn, N.Y.). He participated in the artists-in-residence program at the Atlantic Center for the Arts with Josiah Mcelheny (Florida). Dávila holds a film degree from Vancouver Film School in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is represented by FIFI Projects in Mexico. He lives and works in Mexico City.