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Pilar Albarracín

Born in 1968. Lives and works between Madrid and Seville.

Pilar Albarracín is one of Spain's most internationally renowned artists today. 
After graduating with a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Seville in 1993, the artist combines social engagement and formal aesthetics in her multidisciplinary work (video, performance, installation, photography, crafts). Her denunciation of inequality and prejudice coexists with humor and color. Her artistic work offers audiences a polychromatic vision of Spanish culture, revealing its tensions, contradictions, and beauty. Pilar Albarracín is committed to preserving traditions while encouraging critical understanding of them, challenging rigid or stereotypical interpretations.

Since the early 1990s, her work has been featured in prestigious group and solo exhibitions in galleries, museums, and historic sites around the world, such as the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, PS1 MoMA in New York, the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, the National Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow, and the Kiasma Museum of Modern Art in Helsinki. She has also participated in numerous festivals and biennials around the world.

www.pilaralbarracin.com

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