I pay special attention to details in the landscape, the horizon, clouds, leaf, and plant accumulations, such as the Tillandsia recurvata, the smallest bromeliad in Puerto Rico. As a survival strategy, they grow in dense groups on top of tree branches, walls or electrical wires. Their curved leaves and the shape they take on as they come together allows them to absorb necessary nutrients from particles suspended in the air. At a formal and conceptual level, I want to adopt this strategy.

Tony Cruz Pabón is an artist who lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His work has always been guided by an attention to an economy of materials, to experience the extraordinary in the everyday, and in what is light and minimal. His work spans different media like drawing, animation, and photography, and has been shown in: Flow States, LA TRIENAL El Museo del Barrio (2024), Puerto Rico Negrx, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (2023), Lo que pesa una cabeza, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (2022), Artefact: Parallel Crossings in STUK, Belgium (2019), We Don’t Need Another Hero,10th Berlin Biennale, Germany (2018), Spirit Levels in the CCA Glasgow (2014), the III Trienal Poli/gráfica de San Juan (2012), The Peripatetic School, Drawing Room in London (2011). He is cofounder of Beta-Local (2009); a space that, among other things, is an experimental education project and production space; a platform of critical discussion in San Juan, PR.

Selected Works