Pablo Zuleta Zahr
Bio
Pablo Zuleta Zahr (Viña del Mar, 1978) is a contemporary Chilean visual artist and photographer, recognized for exploring themes such as identity, representation, and globalization. His work combines photography, installation, and video, developing a clean, systematic, and deeply reflective aesthetic.
One of his most emblematic projects is The Global Identity Project, a long-term photographic series that documents faces in transit across different cities around the world. Through frontal portraits and neutral backgrounds, Zuleta Zahr creates a visual archive that questions the notion of identity in the global era, bridging the documentary and the conceptual.
He currently lives and works in Chile, and has exhibited his work in various galleries and cultural spaces across Europe and Latin America.
Statement
In Proyecto Identidad Global (The Global Identity Project), Pablo Zuleta Zahr uses photography to explore the diversity of identities in urban environments. This photographic exercise, which originates in Chile and expands to other parts of the world, gradually constructs a subjective representation of society through records of people in public spaces, whose individualities are in turn celebrated within the broader global cultural mosaic.
Each series begins with the selection of a public place—such as a metro station or a square—where there is a high flow of people from different backgrounds. Over the course of a day, Zuleta Zahr records approximately 15,000 passersby on video, from which a selection is later arranged into a large-format grid, following a pattern-based composition.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
