Paola Davila (Oaxaca, Mexico, 1980) With 14 solo exhibitions and more than 60 group exhibitions in Mexico and abroad, Paola Dávila has received numerous awards, including the Biennial Photography Award (Mexico, 2021), as well as the Tierney Foundation Grant (N.Y., 2010), Artist Residencies (Salzburg, 2014 and Banff, 2009). She has been a member of the National System of Creators, (Mexico, since 2020)
Her work is part of the collections of the MUAC, the EPO Foundation, the Tierney Foundation, the Museo Universitario del Chopo, the National Photography Archive, and the Manuel Álvarez Bravo Photography Center, among others.
Throughout the years, Paola Dávila’s work has addressed visual essays about the self-imposed limits that contemporary societies have built at different cultural levels. Exploring the notions of home, habitation, intimacy, and landscape, her practice articulates questions in multiple e directions and delineates space: inside, outside, and the boundaries between one concept and another. By moving between these borders or conceptual relations, Dávila’s recent work not only broadens confined situations but also navigates them from the public sphere to find her own voice in contemporary photographic narrative. With the series Mareas the artist’s research on cyanotype and the seascape unfolds her relationship with landscape and the different agents that modify and affect it.