11/03/2026
Get out & vote!! Then come see Pau Pescador’s “The body becomes space…” a video artwork consisting of filmed and found media as well as short text segments that illuminates the artist’s lived experience attempting to move through the world at a moment when extensive laws are being written to eliminate the rights of trans people in the United States. A wide-range of content including close-up blurred found footage, light cascading into the artist’s domestic space as well as series of narrative vignettes shot on Polaroid film. Each Polaroid consists of a still life shot within Pescador’s personal space and made with masks and toys gathered from the artist’s studio. The Polaroids were filmed in groceries stores, streets, hardware stores, parks, etc and left within these spaces. The placement of the artist’s private space into the public is reminiscent of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (Billboard of an empty bed), 1993, in which Gonzalez-Torres placed images of his empty bed on 24 billboards throughout Manhattan at the height of the AIDS crisis. Pescador’s Polaroid interventions are more ephemeral and invisible, the video does not say what becomes of these photographs, leaving this to the viewer to imagine.
