Pablo Lerma

Pablo Lerma's artistic practice develops at the intersection of photography and writing with a focus on visual archives and vernacular materials that address concepts of time, erosion, identity and counter-narrative. His work consist of a rich variety from photographic installations to publications.

He is the founder of the publishing house Meteoro Editions (US-NL), a platform for the creation of art publications with a focus on projects engaging with non-art photography, archives, utopias and fictional representations of the world. He is currently teaching social art practice at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and is a faculty member in media and photography at Webster University in Leiden. For the past ten years he has been a faculty member in photography and social justice at the International Center of Photography in New York and a professor of photography at Kean University in New Jersey.

As an artist, theorist and mediator, Pablo Lerma questions the archive of the Nazi Documentation Centre with its photographic holdings from the National Socialist era for aspects of visibility and invisibility, representation and trauma, and (sub)seeks the historical and contemporary power structures that are fixed in it. Through a reenactment, the memorial's holdings will be activated and the opening, viewing and storage of archival materials will become the subject of a performance.