The PARIS 68 Studio Space
Like all of Pedro´s body of work , which treads the uneasy line between violence and beauty, resistance and commodification, the studio exists as a space of contradiction—it is a repurposed room in a deactivated factory, a space stripped of its function, still bound to its origins.
Pedro does not pretend to be free of his history; and he makes sure that the studio doesnt, either. In lieu of denial, it bears its weight, acknowledging that creation is never separate from the world that precedes it, that betterment is not opposite from what came before. To work here is to engage in a dialogue with the past, which informs the work.
One could infer that is the final absurdity of Pedro´s art: to persist, knowing his message will be perversed, to create, knowing it will be commodified, to struggle, knowing the struggle will not end. And in this, a greater irony lingers—violence, so often the raw material of history and revolution, is transfigured into spectacle, its images coveted and sold. The artist, aware of this inevitability, presses forward not in ignorance but in inevitability, pushing paint like a factory worker once pressed steel, producing not escape but resistance, not answers, but questions.
all studio pictures by yuri félix.
