Argentina
Jorge Pomar
Spanish / English
GEOMETRIC
I focus on a basic element of the urban landscape: the wall. Through the exploration of the city at its various levels, my artistic practice deploys a variety of large-scale and site-specific proposals in public space. With a marked interest in urban landscape, I pay attention to the plastic conventions that configure the visual signs that carry and exercise power in the life of cities. In my quest to experiment with the symbolic charge that color can have in different contexts, my body of work opens up a varied materiality that encompasses drawing, photography, ceramics and printed publications. Collaborative practices characterize a relevant part of my processes. From the experience of interventions around the world, I developed a collective way of doing things focused on affective experiences. Likewise, I propose a fragmentary inclusion in exhibition spaces with textiles and installations that replace the rigidity of urban construction with gestures that propose an intimate contact through softness and softness. I was selected for several artists programs and work clinics and workshops with renowned artists and curators. I held individual and group exhibitions in Argentina, Italy, Poland, France and Russia. My works can be found in public spaces in different cities in Latin America, Europe and Asia. I am co-founder of publishing house Bucle Editorial and founder of Casa Omar, a space for workshops, exhibitions and residencies active between 2012 and 2022 in Buenos Aires. I currently live and work between Buenos Aires and Paris.