Christian Salablanca

Christian Salablanca is a graduate of the sculpture department of the School of Art and Visual Communication of the National University of Costa Rica. He has undertaken residencies at Pivô Pesquisa (São Paulo, Brazil), Sagrada Mercancía (Santiago, Chile), Cráter Invertido (Mexico City, Mexico), Kiosko Galería (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia), Despacio (San José, Costa Rica), and Espira La Espora (Managua, Nicaragua). His artistic research is focused on the phenomena of violence and the different ways in which it produces, determines, and conditions historical, social, and political subjects. His production methods function as affective encounters and are concerned with territories and populations in Central and South America, and the Caribbean. Salablanca’s interdisciplinary works attempt to create a radical reflection on the cultural relations of violent systems: from the human to the animal, from the word to symbolic memory, and from the centres of power to the periphery.