Pepón Osorio Pepón Osorio with Dan Cameron

The Brooklyn Rail Oct 01, 2024

Pepón Osorio is known for his provocative, large scale multimedia installations that merge conceptual art and community dynamics. Osorio has worked with over twenty-five communities across the United States and internationally, creating installations based on their real-life experiences. On the occasion of Osorio’s exhibition, Convalescence, at the Thomas Jefferson University medical campus in Philadelphia, we recorded a conversation on the New Social Environment (Episode #1084). We discussed the artist’s early days in New York, how his job as a caseworker at the Department of Human Services influences his artwork, and why he thinks of his final installation as “the debris of the process.” The following text is a version of that conversation that has been edited for print.

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