{"id":3312,"date":"2026-09-12T16:36:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/pau-pescadors-amor-prohibido-at-tyler-park-presents-confronts-surveillance-and-legibility\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T16:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:36:44","slug":"pau-pescadors-amor-prohibido-at-tyler-park-presents-confronts-surveillance-and-legibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/pau-pescadors-amor-prohibido-at-tyler-park-presents-confronts-surveillance-and-legibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Pau Pescador\u0019s \u001aAmor Prohibido\u001a at Tyler Park Presents confronts surveillance and legibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Tyler Park Presents, trans femme artist Pau Pescador\u0019s exhibition Amor Prohibido<\/em> takes on the volatility of being seen in public spaces where queer existence is criminalized. As anti-transgender legislation grows alongside advancing security technologies, the show\u0019s 118 photographs and a video artwork wrestle with how visibility is policed and misread. A 2015 report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology even describes how \u001cintruders\u001d in gender-segregated areas can be detected using facial recognition software\u0014a specter the artist pointedly resists by turning the camera\u0014a primary instrument of surveillance\u0014toward her own experience.<\/p>\n

Grids, props, and the joke of coherence<\/h2>\n

Across a suite of photographic grids, Pescador builds and dismantles bodies in public using outlandish materials, loosening any grip on a single, legible self. Works from the series How do you solve a problem like\u00019<\/em> (all 2026) unfold in sequences of 4 x 6 inch C-prints\u0014for instance, How do you solve a problem like\u00019 (1)<\/em><\/strong>, 2026, appears as a grid of sixteen 4 x 6 inch C-prints, 19 x 27\u001d. The photographs track the artist as she playfully assembles anthropomorphic figures: pool noodles become arms, an avocado costume stands in for a torso, and a clown mask functions as a face. The humor is pointed; these absurd stand-ins lampoon the mandates of a \u001cpublicly appropriate\u001d body. When the constructed figure in How do you solve a problem like\u00019 (2)<\/em><\/strong> slips free and collapses in the final frame, the fantasy of a stable identity gives way, too.<\/p>\n

Private frames and a hostile public<\/h2>\n

Moving from the street to the bedroom, the eponymous photographic series lines up close-cropped Polaroids that record the artist\u0019s body in bed. In Amor Prohibido (3)<\/em><\/strong>, Pescador stares into the lens wearing a cartoonish mask with eyes half the size of her face, pushing the portrait beyond what facial recognition\u0014or a paranoid passerby\u0014might neatly parse. A related work, Amor Prohibido (1)<\/em><\/strong>, 2026, is a Polaroid photograph measuring 15.25\u001d x 12.25\u001d x 1.25\u001d.<\/p>\n

The video The body becomes space\u00019<\/em><\/strong>, 2026 (single channel, 11:45), blends found footage, clips from the artist\u0019s life, and text segments into a semi-narrative about being deemed illegible in a hostile public. Pescador recounts constant checks for \u001cdeceit\u001d and \u001clegibility\u001d: a man at a grocery store calls her a \u001cman in heels,\u001d and customs agents question border crossing when they cannot locate an alleged biological truth. Between text passages, she plants Polaroids from her private space into the public realm\u0014images that may be unreadable to others yet refuse erasure.<\/p>\n

Amor Prohibido<\/em> closed on July 18th at Tyler Park Presents, 560 N. Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90004. In a moment when social and legal systems cast transgender people as deceitful or incoherent, Pescador\u0019s exhibition turns that charge back on the systems themselves.<\/p>\n

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