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(he/him · b. 1971, Montevideo, Uruguay)
Juan-Pedro Fabra Guemberena (b. 1971, Montevideo) lives and works between Stockholm, Montevideo and Berlin. He works with film, photography and installation, among other things, and his practice revolves around memory, migration and the traces that political events leave in humans. Through his art, he examines how history is carried forward through the body and the image – how collective traumas are translated into personal gestures and everyday rituals.
Fabra Guemberena came to Sweden as a child in exile with his family from the dictatorship in Uruguay, an experience that characterizes much of his art. Intimacy and geopolitics meet in his work: a child's memory image can function as a key to larger stories about migration, class and belonging. The imagery is often low-key and sensitive, with a cinematic sensibility that captures the elusive, such as moods, disorientation or silence.
Educated at the Royal Academy of Arts, He has exhibited widely internationally and is represented in the collection of the Moderna Museet, among others. Regardless of the medium, his work is characterized by a desire to make visible what is elusive: memory as a disturbance, the image as a wound, history that has not yet settled down.
