Artist Talk with Pablo Mercado
Wed 31 Aug 2016, 3 – 5 pm
Heritage Space
From Heritage Space:
You are invited to a talk with artist Pablo Mercado from Spain.
“The primary focus of my practice is human memory and in particular how the brain processes and recalls the information to create memories.”
The memory of a complete experience consists of fragments of information that are stored in different regions of the brain. These bits of information are then reunited by the hippocampus from the separated areas. Till recently it was believed that memories remained static until the holder was damaged. Recent studies in neuroscience suggest that when we remember an event a new consolidation of the memory occurs. This is not a generation of a new memory but a restructuring or reconstruction of a memory prior. When the brain remembers something, that memory is reconstructed and updated. This phenomenon means that when something is recalled not the original event is remembered but only the last update. In this recovery the brain reinterprets and modifies the information. The more an event is recalled the great the difference in between the recollection and the original event would be.
Through the method of my practice I am creating a connection in between these theories and the visual field. During the talk I will explain briefly the brain processes that inspired my work and how I have been developing my ideas in order to choose a technique that better serve the concept. I will present some of my previous works as well as new project still in process.”
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Pablo Mercado (Antequera, 1983) studied Fine Arts at the Universidad de Sevilla (Spain) and the Accademia di Belle Arti Pietro Vannucci di Perugia (Italy). Then he completed the Master of Arts, creation and research at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain).
Since 2010, Pablo Mercado lives and works in Berlin where he has had different solo and group exhibitions. Also, he has had numerous international exhibitions in Spain, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Mexico, Taiwan and South Korea. And it has been selected to participate in several residency programs: Contemporary Art Museum MAC Gas Natural Fenosa, in La Coruña; Soulangh Artists Residency, in Taiwan; ARE Holland, in The Netherlands; and Art Studio Gachang, in South Korea.
Heritage Space is a combination of an art gallery, a library, a concert hall, co-working office, residency space, artist studios and some open-stages, which has the capacity to host art exhibitions, music events, educational programs, multi-creative forms, artist-in-residency programs and others. Run by a group of curators, artists, researchers, musicians and architects, Heritage Space’s mission is to become a HUB for individuals and groups working on multi-disciplines from both inside and outside of the country to support and develop the creative industries in Vietnam.
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