Published by Temblores Publicaciones. Edited by Lucía Sanromán Aranda. Foreword by Alejandra Frausto Guerrero. Text by Helena Chávez Mac Gregor, Renato González Mello, Anna Indych-López, Bill Kelley, Jr., Lucía Sanromán Aranda, Marycar Bastida, Pao Gallardo Aguilar, Paloma Gómez Puente.
This midcareer survey documents the first retrospective for US-based Mexican artist Pedro Lasch (born 1975), celebrated for his socially engaged artworks and experimental pedagogy. The catalog encompasses 13 series of works created from the 1990s to the present and features four key thematic axes: art as a tool, games, fiction and displacement. Lasch conceives of his work as a means to politicize form. He creates both objects and process-based artworks with the capacity to function as tools for consciousness-raising, to address the systems that underpin social, political and economic relations. His work occupies a space between engagement and autonomy, traditional genre and experimental process, as well as national identity and anarchist self-regulation.
