Pablo Delano
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My work engages Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and its diasporas. It focuses on the fundamental dignity of people and on the historical injustices and ironies of colonial systems, with an eye towards decolonizing our homelands.
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Pablo Delano is a visual artist born and raised in Puerto Rico. He works in the mediums of installation, photography and assemblage. Appropriating archival imagery, film footage and found objects, Delano created the immersive conceptual art installation titled The Museum of the Old Colony (MotOC), a continually evolving site-specific project exhibited in the Central Pavilion of the Biennale di Venezia 2024. The MotOC is a sweeping indictment of U.S. colonial rule in Puerto Rico from the 1898 invasion to the present. It also examines the complicity of museums in the processes of empire building and colonial control.
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Pablo Delano, la Biennale de Venecia y Puerto Rico - By Nelson Rivera (2024)
80 Grados | Article
Estrangement, Restlessness, and Rupture: Pablo Delano and the Rethinking of Puerto Rico - By Elizabeth Mirabal (2023)
The Latinx Project | Article
A New Museum for an Old Colony, Puerto Rico - By David Gonzalez (2017)
The New York Times | Article