After studying media and photography in Lima, Pablo Hare entered film studies at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television in San Antonio, Cuba. He has been a resident at the Kunsthochschule fur Medien in Cologne and at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris. He was co-director of the Galeria del Escusado (2002-3) and co-founder of the artist-run Espacio La Culpable (2002-8), both based in Lima. In 2008, while living in Bristol, U.K., he started Toromuerto Press, an ongoing independent publishing project that is an integral part of his artistic practice. The transformation of the geographic, political, and social landscape of Peru is the central concern of Hare’s work. He has exhibited in South America and Europe, including at the Sao Paulo Biennial (2002) and the Tate Modern (2013). He lives in Lima. This series was made between 2005 and 2012 along the Peruvian Pacific coast and the central and southeast Andes as a record of the wave of new monuments that have been built throughout the country in the last two decades. Contradicting the Western tradition of use of public spaces and construction of monuments and memorials, which nation-states use to solidify images that form part of their basic symbolic lexicon, in Peru, the absence of the state has left squares and other public spaces to the free will and imagination of their inhabitants and local authorities. This reversal has yielded a massive and diverse production of new monumentalia. AUTHOR: Hare is one of the leading figures in a new generation of Latin American photographers with a conceptual language still rare in a Continent where may photographers are focused on documentary images. He has taken part in many group exhibitions, most notable: Fixing Shadows: Contemporary Peruvian Photography, 1968-2015, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, 2016; Urbes Mutantes: Latin American Photography 1941-2012, International Center of Photography, New York, 2014 and Ruins in Reverse, Project Space, Tate Modern, London, 2013. 59 colour images
