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Framed

On view at Locust Projects April 13 - April 20 (For access on April 20 to the 2024 Spring Fling ticket is required PURCHASE HERE)

o Artist: Pablo Francisco Matute

o Title: "Cultural barriers"

o Year: 2023

o Medium: Charcoal on paper

o Dimensions: 14 x 21 inches

o Description: My work explores the theme of recontextualization, looking at objects and the world and reinterpreting them through my eyes based on my experiences as a second-generation Latino living in South Florida, this idea of preservation was instilled into me at an early age. Throughout my work, you can see small homages to my Ecuadorian roots. This piece titled "Cultural Barriers" is a symbolic representation of that phrase. So many of us have grown up with our culture instilled within us. Understanding these distinctions has helped me see these dissimilarities as not barriers but bridges to other cultures and ways of living. The banana plants growing behind the wall are made to represent that beauty, changing something that was originally intended to be restricting into something that becomes welcoming.

o Artist website or Instagram: pablomatuteart.com/ ig; pablo_matuteart