Pabo Zuleta Zahr

Biography
Pablo Zuleta Zahr examines concepts of mass-production, international social trends and stereotypes. Recently, his work was published in the February 2015 issue of Architectural Digest. He has exhibited work in Spain, Germany, Chile, Italy, France, and the United States. Zuleta Zahr was born in Vina del Mar, Chile, and now lives and works in Berlin.

My recent series of work “Blackspace” deals in a very simple and literal way with the semantics of the word photography,which in Greek means “drawing with light.

Blackspace
Created with intuition, these photograms are the result of various mixtures of colored photographic filters. Zahr begins by making a paper template that he places over three layers of primary color (magenta, cyan, and yellow) filters. He cuts out geometric shapes with two of the filters and leaves one intact. The uncut filter is placed over a scanner, and the original template is rebuilt with the other two. When all of the filters are present they combine and make fields of black. When they are moved slightly and scanned, the filters mix and create seams of light and color. These “scannograms” are then printed on DuraTrans paper and mounted in light boxes.

Baquedano
Somewhere in a subway under neutral lighting the artist sets up his video camera in front of a monochrome wall and films for ten hours. One can’t distinguish between day and night and it’s only through the frequency of passers-by that one can decipher whether it is bedtime or rush-hour. The footage gathered in two ten-hour sessions in Santiago, Chile and in Berlin serves solely as source material. Each figure recorded is later digitally separated out, sorted, and filed away first by gender and then by color. The figures are then reordered in panoramic compositions of rhythmic form and color.

Education
1999
Architecture, Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile

2006
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, MFA with Thomas Ruff

Exhibitions
2016
Camera-less, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Album de Chile, Centro Cultural de la Moneda, Santiago, Chile
Anonymous Urban Life in Contemporary Photography, Museé de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Map of Daily Life, TEFA, Tianjin, China

2015
A Sea Change Into Lands Rich and Strange, Abrons Arts Center, New York
Blackspace, Ehko Gallery, Santiago Chile (solo)

2014
European Month of Photography, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

2013
Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Russia

2011
The Loss of All Certain, With the False and Doubtful, Galerie September, Berlin, Germany (solo)

2010
The 3 Lines of El Morro, Galeria Patricia Ready, Santiago, Chile (solo)
Event Horizon, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, USA (solo)

2009
Selected Artists – Stipendiatinnen und Stipendiaten des Arbeitsstipendiums für Bildende, Berlin, Germany

2008
METAL POSTCARD – MITTAGEISEN, SEPTEMBER, Berlin, Germany
Madrid Mirada. 14 artistas latinoamericanos, Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Madrid Mirada. 14 artistas latinoamericanos, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
Join the Crowd, Ronchini Arte Contemporanea, Terni, Italy
Studio la Città, Verona, Italy (solo)
Madrid Mirada, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
Gallery Bendana-Pinel, Paris, France (solo)

2007
BUTTERFLYJACKPOT, SEPTEMBER, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
In Dialogo, Studio la Cittá, Verona, Italy
Nach dem Sputnik, KIT, Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, Germany
Intersection VI, Resy Muijsers Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherland

2006
NAK Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany (solo)
11 Contempoararies, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, UK
Intersection 0, Resy Muijsers Contemporay Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Pingyao International Photography Show, Shanxi Daily, Talyuan, China
Perfect 10, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, USA
New Code, Studio La Città, Verona, Italy
reGeneration: 50 Photgraphers of Tomorrow, Aperture Book Center,
New York, NY, USA

2005
50 Fotografi di domani-ReGeneration, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milano, Italy
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
reGeneration: 50 Photographes de demain, 2005-2025, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Transformationen – Junge Fotografie, Galerie B, Baden-Baden, Germany

2004
Nachstellungen – Junge Fotografie aus Düsseldorf, Halle 6 – Galerie Christine Hölz, Düsseldorf, Germany
LICHT – Zeitgenössische Fotografie, glue, Berlin, Germany
Ein Stück Wahrheit – 5 Studenten aus der Ruffklasse, Museum Villa Haiss, Zell a.H., Germany

2003
Galerie der Stadt Remscheid, Remscheid, Germany (solo)

Press
2016 
Diane Armitage, Camera-less, THE Magazine, July, p. 57

Press Release
2016 Camera-less at Richard Levy Gallery

2010 Event Horizon at Richard Levy Gallery