Nicolás Paris's work often draws on pedagogical strategy to incorporate elements of collaboration, dialogue, and exchange in his work, which is oriented to mediate for the construction of dialogue environments between the observer, the exhibition space and the institutions, to develop events and places which encourage the exchange of reflections.
Read MoreIn this manner, he works in projects which are chronicles and reinterpretations of collective work and its work methods, which, supported on visual aids, such re-presentations become basic learning and communication tools, survive thanks to their oral possibilities. As a result, his work is comprised in projects that define themselves by images and activities that encourage a two-way exchange of reflections, and at the same time, evidence the intermediate stages of transformation, in operational, representational and metaphorical levels.
Recent solo exhibitions include: entre mañana y ayer o los caminos del desvío, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (2018); Petricor, NC-Arte, Bogota (2016); Four variations on nothing or talking about that which has no name, Museu Berardo, Lisbon (2015); Micro-eventos o la posibilidad de equivocarnos, Fórum Eugénio de Almeida, Évora (2015); Room for Us, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (2013); Resistance Exercises, MUAC Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City (2012); Unlearn, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (2012).
Recent group shows include: XII Havana Biennial (2015), Ernesto, Centre Européen d' Actions Artistiques Contemporaines, Strasbourg (2014); The Peacock, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (2014), A Pause for Reflexexion, Musac, León (2014); Do It (travel exhibition), Manchester International Festival (2013); Saber Desconocer, 43 Salon (inter)nacional de Artistas, Medellín (2013); The Ungovernables, Second New Museum Triennial, New York (2012); 54th Venice Biennial (2011); 11th Lyon Biennial (2011).
His work is part of collections such as: TATE Modern, England; Kadist Art Foundation, France; JUMEX Collection, Mexico; MAMM, Colmbia; MUSAC, Spain
Text courtesy Luisa Strina.
