Pedro Reyes Melodrama and other Board Science Fiction Dice Games at the Liverpool UK Biennial of Contemporary Art Festival 2012, Merseyside, UK
Pedro Reyes (b. 1972, Mexico City) is an artist who lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico. Trained as an architect, Pedro Reyes is interested in societal problem solving. His projects aim to improve the urban environment through hands-on facilitation: increasing individual and collective agency through constructed situations, which he devises. Of prime importance is Reyes' interest in the 'encounter experience' between strangers and the de-professionalization of therapy and its use as a peer assisted tool. This has most recently been evidenced in the artist's Sanatorium, a temporary clinic in which visitors can experience treatments drawn from Gestalt psychology, theatre warm-up exercises, Fluxus events, corporate coaching and psychosis - simultaneously acknowledging the importance of the performed and 'real' self.
Size: 4775px × 3187px
Location: Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
Photo credit: © MediaWorldImages / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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