Biography

Jorge Tacla’s paintings from the Escombros series represent a space of social rupture. Motivated by the bombings in Beirut in 2006 and in Oklahoma City in 1995, this series emerges from the joints of a new architecture arising in the wake of catastrophe, be it natural or man-made. Tacla perceives these devastations as opportunities to investigate structural systems that would otherwise remain unseen. He uses an obsessive pictorial language, repeating the same gesture in the same space many times until the visual register is analogous to the trauma that prompted it.