Sebastián “Chebo” Roitter Pavez

Bio

Sebastián “Chebo” Roitter Pavez is a visual artist, graphic designer, writer, and editor. The central question of his work lies in the relationship between images, text, the mechanism for truth construction, and humor. Both in his written and visual work, he manipulates images and documents from the public domain, forgotten histories, and apocryphal traditions to look through the gaps and holes in the main Western narratives, thus creating speculative objects, inviting new conversations around the management of cultural heritage, and challenging the function of art in public spaces.

The themes that embody his praxis so far vary from 1. A eulogy to the life of a made-up British anthropologist in the dawn of the museum age, 2. The creation of a fictional avant-garde movement in Buenos Aires and Latin America, 3. The recovery of the forgotten stories of the Holy Foreskin in a series of tableaux, clay ceramics, and rituals, 4. A compiled illustrated history of the night fauna of Die Münsterland in West Germany, 5. The stories of Jewish (or allegedly) typographists amid Nazi Germany. 6. A series of fountains inspired by Ismail al-Jazari’s Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices.