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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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Inside the Museum of the Old Colony, installation walls are a dark blue. Pablo Delano's work is displayed on the walls.
Pablo Delano. The Museum of the Old Colony (MotOC) detail view, 2024, site specific installation, dimensions variable. Photographic documentation ©️Pablo Delano, 2024.
Inside the Museum of the Old Colony, the installation walls is white. There are old black and white photos with text in script on the sides. In the center, there is a can of "National Sodas" and a small can of "Corned Beef" sitting on top with the American and Puerto Rican flags sticking out.
Pablo Delano. The Museum of the Old Colony (MotOC) detail view, 2024, site specific installation, dimensions variable. Photographic documentation ©️Pablo Delano, 2024.
The blue and white walls of the Museum of the Old Colony are covered in black and white photographs of people, statues, and monuments. In the center of the room there is a full desk covered in objects. The desk is accompanied by a trash bin. It is roped off so that museum-goers do not interact with it.
Pablo Delano. The Museum of the Old Colony (MotOC) detail view, 2024, site specific installation, dimensions variable. Photographic documentation ©️Pablo Delano, 2024.