Artist Blog

Every week an artist whose single image was published by Der Greif is given a platform in which to blog about contemporary photography.

Today I will present Pablo Julian Mendez's works. The common bottom of Pablo's works articulate around researches on the subjects of the perception, the language, rites and poetry as well in a photographic way than in videos. Holism is a body of photographs that plays with the photographic 'structure' in itself. Pablo plays with the composants as colors, surface and pixels. Before any manipulation, all the taken photos are in color. Pablo takes back the dominating color in the image, extrapolate it, and makes it an image in itself. The particle which is a part of the image become a new surface. As the line, the point do not exist in the digital photography, but pixels. 'Holism' is the idea that natural systems (physical, biological, chemical, social, economic, mental, linguistic, etc.) and their properties should be viewed as wholes, not as collections of parts. This often includes the view that systems function as wholes and that their functioning cannot be fully understood solely in terms of their component parts. I think it's a nice parralele to photography. To how by a gesture, a look can be deconstructed. In the proposal Pablo Méndez's holism there are two parts: images-color and images-forms, among which the one makes knowledge another one. The project plays with "veiled" images in which what remains recognizable it is a shape, sometimes more likely to the "real world" and in others quite more "abstract". That invites to the spectators to restore the articulation between the image-color and the image-shape. A presence of an abscence. As well as see every part separately and be allowed carry by the poetry of colors or the forms, in a space of an unambiguous non-meaning, and opening in the experience. Language and perception are a strong base in Pablo's concerns. I invite you to have a look on his videographic laboratory. www.mendezpablo.com.ar