Gabriel Rodríguez Pellecer

Gabriel Rodríguez Pellecer (Guatemala City, 1984) is a contemporary artist whose practice moves between experimentation and observation, understanding art as the materialization of gestures and journeys. Working primarily with drawing and painting, he uses these media to document actions, physical and psychological displacements, and experiential processes. His current research focuses on inducing images through artificial means and transforming the journey into an artistic gesture. His early work explored themes related to social injustice in Guatemala, later shifting toward subjectivity, memory, and ways of absorbing lived experience. Within his projects, he adopts different symbolic roles — explorer, volcanologist, astronaut, or anthropologist — as strategies to induce events and activate forms of documentation. Part of his artistic inquiry engages with the sensibilities of the Indigenous world in Guatemala, addressing territory, identity, and perception. Rodríguez Pellecer’s practice positions art as an open-ended exploration in which each project unfolds as an uncertain expedition, recorded through gesture and image.