We are proud to see our Pascal Hachem among the new residents of Casa Wabi.
Casa Wabi, a nonprofit arts center located in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico, is a stage for world-renowned contemporary artists and architects to engage with the local community.
Tadao Ando's remarkable Casa Wabi dots the Pacific coastline of Mexico with structures by Alberto Kalach, Alvaro Siza, Kengo Kuma, Gloria Cabral, Solano Benitez, Jorge Ambrosi, and Gabriela Etchegaray. Founded in 2013 by renowned Mexican artist Bosco Sodi, it combines artist residencies, a gallery, and living quarters with classrooms, gardens, and public space.
Hachem’s works developed over the years as a discrete experience, through processes that employ the visual to evoke an intellectual and psychological response.
Working through performative acts, often interventions into urban spaces, or by creating sculptural installations in gallery settings, Hachem sets up compelling situations which ask or even demand that the viewer pause and concentrate, take the time to think and work out visual conundrums. At its core, his work manifests his responses to the world, to the power relations and social situations he relentlessly examines and critiques.
