Mirror mirror on the wall

Pablo Llana was born in 1980, and lives and works in Tijuana, Mexico. He graduated in arts at the House of Culture of Tijuana. From 2000 to 2002 he was a student of the “Artistic Professionalization Program for Visual Artists” (PROPAVIS) taught at the “Humanities Center of Baja California”, with the support of CONACULTA, including outstanding artists and professionals such as Felipe Ehrenberg, among others.

Using 'Junk-Food' wrappings as raw material, the artist points towards a political reflection, combining the critical with the social. The result is works rich in texture, whose colour palette derives from the plastic waste of poor nutrition; individual consequences of globalisation and undoubtedly one of the scourges of the 21st century. In the global scenario, there is a future that points to the uneven conditions between health and mass production societies, where social innovation and prosperity seem to be based on a cosmopolitan focus of the big cities, which, despite having a higher civilisational-technological development, continue to suffer from a lack of basics such as housing, health and human rights.