Pablo Lopez Luz (born 1979 in Mexico) is a photographic artist living in Mexico City.
His work has been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions and solo shows in international museums and galleries.
Lopez Luz won several awards and he is the author of three monographic publications. His photographs are part of several prestigious art collections.
About ‘Pyramid’:
‘Pyramid‘ was born out of questioning two core concepts: history and the role it performs in the contemporary world, as well as the joint creation of our notion of identity.
Throughout history, the Mexican population has been victimised by the superposition of different historic layers and cultural impositions, culminating in the creation of a hybrid society that persistently struggles to define its own identity.
Contemporary society, as a result, oscillates between alien (foreign) ideals of modernization and an increasingly fragile link to an elusive past. It would seem then that, in most cases, pre-Hispanic reinvention generally obeys a social need to maintain the relevance of an increasingly diffuse heritage, rather than a continuum of shared identity.
To provide another example: the emergence of neo-pre-Hispanic architecture in government buildings and national monuments during the first half of the 20th century obeyed the ideological need among the ruling class to strengthen a Mexican sense of nationalism.
The following photographs describe a voyage through modern ruins, decorative archaeology and pigmented stairways that collectively pay tribute to a historic past, one that will in all likelihood be omitted from the new discourse of Latin American progress.
