Through large-scale projections of words, literary passages and poems onto moving trains as well as from a moving car onto the environment (houses, trees, buildings, fences, freeways, etc.), I investigate how different environments and contexts affect the projected words, and how the projected words affect the environments. Capturing each projection on video and photography, the long exposure used results in transparency, multiplicity, and fragmentation of the words as they adopt the fast changing shapes of the projected surfaces. Meaning in Motion is an art project that proposes an open-ended dialogue between image and viewer through motion, language, color, and form. I am interested in how, through language and the meaning of words, we feel compelled to reflect, as the passing train/moving context constitute a metaphor of life, and the words a means for questioning ourselves, delivering different answers for each viewer. bio: Early on in life Pablo Gimenez-Zapiola developed a particular interest in art and aesthetics, which led him to experiment with diverse visual expression techniques to develop and express his ideas. He learned composition and the subtlety and richness of color through painting. Photography allowed him for BW darkroom experimentation and to capture reality in a variety of ways. Finally, architecture gave him the knowledge of function and the skills for assemblage and 3D visualization. After completing his degree in architecture, he gained some working experience that led him toward graphic design. This combination of backgrounds taught him to understand art as a way of enhancing meaning in life and at the same time provided him a broader spectrum of resources to draw from and greater freedom to create. His work has been exhibited in galleries in Argentina (Espacio Buenos Aires, Fundación Hampatu, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Espacio Ecléctico - Buenos Aires), and the US (Schneider Gallery - Chicago, LeHigh University Art Galleries - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Contemporary Arts Museum, De Santos Gallery, Houston Center for Photography, Labotanica, Art Crawl, Project Raw Houses, Bering & James, Diverse Works, Talento Bilingüe - Houston, Texas, ArtHouse - Austin, Texas, Newspace Center for Photography - Portland, Oregon, LACDA - Los Angeles, California), as well as featured on art and photography blogs. His work is part of private collections in Argentina, UK and the US. Education: Bachelor of Architecture, Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina Awards: - Selected as one or the ten “Discoveries of Fotofest Meeting Place 2010”. - Recipient of a Houston Arts Alliance Individual Artist Grant (2011). Conferences/Talks: 2012 • Houston Center for Photography - Guest speaker 2012 • Creative Summit XXVI - Texas State University - San Marcos, TX - www.creativesummit.com 2011 • Episcopal High School - Guest speaker - Houston, TX 2010 • Artist Speakeasy - Spacetaker/Fresh Arts - Guest speaker - Houston, TX Multimedia Performances: 2012 • Video/Animation multiple projections - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston 2011 • Around the infinite – Animation performance - De Santos Gallery - Houston, TX Solo Exhibitions: 2011 • Meaning in Motion - Spacetaker ARC - Houston, TX 2010 • Around the infinite - Labotanica - Houston TX 2010 • Meaning in Motion - Fundación Hampatu - Buenos Aires, Argentina 2001 • Show Motion 2 - Espacio Buenos Aires Gallery – Buenos Aires, Argentina 2000 • Show Motion 1 - Espacio Buenos Aires Gallery – Buenos Aires, Argentina Group Exhibitions: 2012 • Encuentros Abiertos - Festival de la Luz - Centro Cultural Recoleta - Buenos Aires, Argentina 2012 • 30th Annual Juried Membership Exhibition - Houston Center for Photography - Houston, TX 2012 • 2012 Juried Exhibition - DIALOGUE - Newspace Center for Photography - Portland, OR 2012 • Fotofest - Discoveries of the Meeting Place - Allen Center - Houston, TX 2012 • Landscapes II - A Photography Exhibit - City Hall - Houston, TX 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 • 5x7 - Arthouse - Austin, Houston, Dallas, TX 2011 • Fotonoviembre Tenerife - Tenerife, Canary Islands - Spain 2011 • Meaning in Motion - Sicardi Gallery – Marked Pages III, videos - Houston, TX 2010 • Nano Festival Autorretratos – Espacio Ecléctico – Buenos Aires, Argentina 2010 • DigitalArt LA Juried Exhibition - LACDA - Los Angeles, CA 2010 • The Collector’s Eye: Peers - FOTOFEST Headquarters Gallery - Houston, TX 2010 • Planeta Verde Now - Talento Bilingüe - Houston, TX 2010 • New Discoveries from Around the Globe - Schneider Gallery - Chicago, IL 2010 • FOTOFEST - Perspectives: An Intercultural View on American Values - Bering & James - Houston TX 2006 • Houston it’s Worth it - Houston Center for Photography - Houston, TX 2003 • Show Motion 4 - Art Crawl – Photography/Video - Houston, TX 2003 • Show Motion 3 - Project Row Houses – Photography/Video - Houston, TX Press/Media: -