Jorge Tacla

1958, Santiago, Chile
Lives and works in New York City and Santiago, Chile

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. This person was part of Sharjah Biennial 10