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Pablo López Luz
Frontera
Pablo López Luz
Pablo López Luz. San Diego - Tijuana XI, Frontera USA-Mexico, 2008
In Frontera, Pablo López Luz aims his camera at the Mexico – USA border. The resulting images, made during 2014 and 2015, show a different landscape from what is usually portrayed in this region, presenting a study of social and political contrast that emerges as a big scar in an otherwise deserted landscape.
Through López Luz’s pictures, we find the natural world becoming decimated by urbanization, forcing us to brood on the fragile relationships between population growth, social class, and the sacrifice of the natural world in favor of concrete and pavement. Of course while the photographer trains his lens on contemporary Mexico, it’s not difficult to extrapolate these issues globally, allowing us to consider the ways in which rapid and seemingly endless development continues to pillage nature, exhaust natural resources, and push us as a species further and further from our origins. On a macro level, what López Luz’s work represents is the latest in a lineage of photographers who seek to not just make beautiful images, but to advocate for change and provide evidence of issues of pressing concern.
Selected Works
Pablo López Luz
Barret Junction - Tecate, Frontera USA-Mexico, 2014
2 ETH
Pablo López Luz
Baja California - Imperial County VI, Frontera Mexico - USA, 2014
2 ETH
Pablo López Luz
Calexico -Mexicali II, Frontera Mexico - USA, 2015
1.5 ETH
Pablo López Luz
Calexico - Mexicali II, Frontera USA - Mexico, 2014
1.5 ETH
Pablo López Luz
Calexico-Mexicali VII, Frontera USA - Mexico, 2015
7 ETH
Pablo López Luz
Desierto IV, Frontera, 2014
1.5 ETH
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Artist
Pablo López Luz
1979 (Mexico)
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Pablo López Luz is a Mexican artist based in Mexico City. López Luz grew up in an artistic family, becoming acquainted with celebrated Mexican photographers such as Graciela Iturbide, whose influence on the young Pablo was considerable. In 2006, after studying communications, he earned a master’s degree in art at New York University and the International Center of Photography in New York.
His work takes inspiration from the Mexican landscape tradition. He is best known for his aerial photographs of Mexico City, a global city undergoing rapid and chaotic growth. He has also explored the links between history and the contemporary world, including questioning Mexican national identity. Pablo López Luz received a scholarship from the Casa Velázquez (Madrid) in 2005 and the Jóvenes Creadores grants of the FONCA in Mexico in 2007 and 2011.
He has held numerous solo exhibitions in Mexico, including Ciudad de México at the gallery Arena (2007), Terrazo at the Casa del Lago (2006), Al final… El horizonte at the Museo Archivo de la Fotografìa (2011), Ciudades y memoria at the Centro Fotográfico Álvarez Bravo (2012), and Pyramid at Arroniz Arte Contemporáneo (2013), which was followed by a publication of the same name in 2014.
He has also participated in the collective exhibitions América Latina 1960-2013 (2013) at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris (also presented the following year at the Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico), Urbes Mutantes (2014) at the International Center of Photography in New York, and Develar y Detonar (2015) at the Centro Palacio de Cibeles in Madrid, presented as part of PhotoEspaña, Pulsions Urbaines (2017) at the Espace Van Gogh in Arles, presented as part of Les Rencontres d’Arles, and Urban Impulses (2019) at The Photographers’ Gallery in London.
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Center's Project Launch Juror's Award
Lenscratch (article)
