Pablo Serret
de Ena

ISSUE NO. 57
July 31, 2024
July 31, 2024
Pablo Serret
de Ena
Untitled I, 2012
Paper on cardboard, 40 x 40 cm

Pablo Serret de Ena's practice exemplifies a conceptual, almost scientific approach, working across various mediums with a collage mindset. His work fuses design, performance, film, and objects, inviting audience participation to complete, co-create, or engage with the art. This collaborative process turns art into a dynamic dialogue between the piece, its environment, and the viewers. His method embraces non-repetition and utilizes any material that best conveys his ideas. Though rooted in collage thinking, his creations often transcend traditional collage aesthetics, resulting in unique and thought-provoking works.

Useless Opera Singers, 2021
Film, 28:37

I am a multidisciplinary artist and designer who tries to live a plenty life, which translates into ideas, tales and projects. Sometimes in the form of artworks, films, brief notes, workshops or designs... always trying to connect what I feel with what I think with what I do.

Untitled, 2019
Readymade, 32 x 10 x 5 cm

I am quite volatile so I don't think I adhere to a distinct theme that I consciously aim to communicate. But my work often revolves around frameworks like exploration and error, science and magical realism. A scientific approach from a poetic perspective.

Evidence n.27, 2024
Synthetic image, 5000 x 4000 px

Juventud Infinita, 2010
Installation. Confetti, ripped youth magazines and industrial fans, variable dimensions

Anything can be source material. Like many, I started with paper and pixels, but I then expanded to words, objects, film, spam, sounds... even scents. I use whatever format best delivers the idea.

Untitled, 2020
Installation, mechanical rotating display, paper, 100 x 70 cm

Untitled IV, 2012
Paper on cardboard, 40 x 40 cm

Pablo Serret de Ena is a Spanish multidisciplinary artist, designer, and explorer based in Copenhagen. He is the child of a social worker and a mathematician, and now a parent of two children. Pablo holds a BFA from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Aalto University (formerly TAIK) in Helsinki.In most of Pablo's projects, there is always a special focus on engaging audiences around processes, inviting them to complete the work, co-create, or participate as players in a larger game. His practice is rooted in collaboration, proposing art as a flexible system in continuous conversation with its environment and inhabitants.

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MYEONGSOO KIM, born in 1980 in Korea, creates process-based works which explore the ineffable, expressive and material limits of images and objects as personal, reflective conduits.

CLIFFORD PRINCE KING, born in 1993, documents his intimate relationships in everyday settings that speak to his experiences as a queer black man. In these instances, communion begins to morph into an offering of memory; it is how he honors and celebrates the reality of layered personhood.

RYAN PATRICK KRUEGER, born in 1992, is a lens-based artist whose work addresses themes of grief, loss, and desire through their process of collecting and appropriating vernacular photographs in order to consider the intersections of LGBTQ+ American history and photography.

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