Pablo Jansana

Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark

Artist statement

Born in Santiago de Chile in 1976, I am a visual artist living and working in Copenhagen since 2019. In my work, primarily in painting, I investigate the way historical and political realities have affected circuits of relation and exchange between different cultures in recent times, and in particular that of my native Chile in the post-dictatorial era. I have a special interest in the visual side of our collective memory, and how mythology, political agitation, advertisement and media imagery have affected what survive as public and private memories. These past years I have been working on three new larger groups of paintings that was recently presented in solo exhibitions at Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen (Rododendro, 3 March - 15 April, 2023), Berg Contemporary, Reykjavik (From one day to the next, 18 August - 30 September, 2023), Museo de arte contemporáneo, MAC in Santiago, Chile (Adormecer a los felices, 4th April — 31th Aug, 2024) and currently I am working towards a one-institution solo presentation that will open in Valparaiso, Chile in June 2025 at Centro Parque Valparaíso and in Denmark at Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen in 2025 in November. Where Rododendro evolved around the image a crime scene as metaphor of both past and present narratives of human domination and atrocity, From one day to the next, departed in the idea of a tunnel or portal as a tangible movement of transition and change. Both projects considered a current moment of upheaval and...

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