Pepón Osorio in "Place"
Pepón Osorio
The final artist in Place is Pepón Osorio, filmed on location in his birthplace of Puerto Rico and his residence in Philadelphia, PA. Osorio leads the viewer on a tour of three complex, multidimensional installations where the artist’s Puerto Rican heritage and experience as a social worker inform his staged confrontations between public life and private spaces.
Says Osorio, “When this piece, The Scene of the Crime, was at the Whitney Museum, it almost felt as if I’d taken a piece of the South Bronx and placed it in the middle of Madison Avenue.”
Also featured in this hour is the work Home Visits which transforms the homes of ordinary people into neighborhood-based galleries for a traveling work of art.
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Pepón Osorio was born in 1955 in Santurce, Puerto Rico, and currently lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1975, Osorio left Puerto Rico and moved to the South Bronx in New York City, where he received a degree in sociology from Lehmann College and began working as a social worker in the Human Resources Administration. He later received an MA in sociology from Columbia University in 1985. Influenced by his experiences as a social worker in The Bronx, Osorio builds a participatory model of art that reflects the lives and stories of his communuities. Through his installations and sculptures, the artist calls attention to issues of race, violence, and gender prevalent in the Latinx community.
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