Studio Space
Like all of Pedro´s body of work , which exists between violence, beauty, resistance and commodification, the studio exists as a space of contradiction ; it is a repurposed room in a deactivated factory, a space stripped of its function.
Pedro does not pretend to be free of his history, and he makes sure that the studio doesnt, either. In lieu of denial, it subsists in acknowledging that creation is never separate from the world that precedes it. To work here is to engage in a dialogue with the past, which informs the work.
One could argue that is the defining quality of Pedro´s art : the irony and contrast of the beauty of the technique contrasted by the violence of all that surrounds it. And in this, a greater irony lingers. Violence, so often the raw material of history and revolution, is transfigured into spectacle, its images coveted and sold. The artist presses forward, not in ignorance but in inevitability, pushing paint like a factory worker once pressed steel.
all studio pictures by yuri félix.
