BIO

Pablo Castilla Heredia (Granada, 1980) lives between Norway and Spain. His work is based on the direct exploration of reality and encoded in a documentary-based language through various disciplines such as cinema, performing arts and photography. The use of a documentary style becomes in itself a strategy that reveals fissures in perception and challenges the boundaries between fiction and reality.

After graduating in Fine Arts, he lived in Brussels from 2001 to 2014, where he earned a Master’s Degree in Documentary Filmmaking and, together with Hedvig Biong and Niko Hafkenscheid, founded “Kevin or Harry”, a performing arts collective that creates theatre pieces where real people take the stage. Since 2014, his practice has primarily engaged with photography, with projects materialising in the form of books and exhibitions.

His work has been exhibited/shown, among others, His work has been exhibited/shown at the Norwegian Autumn Exhibition (Høstutstillingen), Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse (FR), PREUS Museum, PhotoEspaña, Berlinale Forum (DE), Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía (ES), Nouveau Theatre de Montreuil (FR), KAAI Theater Brussels and the Oslo Black Box Theater.

Winner of the contest Fotolibro<40, he released in 2020 the photobook “Costa Tropical”, published by Dalpine. Currently working on the photo series “Altiplano”.