Pedro Tyler
Bio
Pedro Tyler (Uruguay, b. 1975) studied Fine Arts at the Finis Terrae University in Santiago, Chile, where he graduated with highest honors in 2001. Over more than two decades, he has developed a distinctive body of work that uses rulers and measuring instruments as metaphors for time, space, and the impossibility of precise measurement. His sculptures—cut, bent, and reassembled from these instruments—engage with philosophical paradoxes and cosmological themes, expanding the dialogue between art, science, and perception.
Tyler has exhibited widely across Latin America, the United States, and Europe, and his work is included in collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the SPACE Collection, Los Angeles; P.O.C., Brussels; CCU, Santiago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bogotá; and various institutions in Montevideo. He lives and works in Santiago.
Statement
The measure of pain related to a close death started a body of works that developed from a personal concern; how to analyze and reason about loss, love and fear. I relate these feelings to what I believe is beauty: the subtlety of instability, like grasping the calm before the storm. Life is but a succession of fleeting moments, and memories what “remains” . Trying to capture this fragility is that I alter objects from our ordinary life, giving them a new meaning. Mixing daily ideas and objects with extraordinary experiences.
