Woman waiting

Next to the large red sofa resembling a mouth, there is an artwork on the right side of the toilets, at the bottom of the wall, by the Mexican street artist Pablo Delgado. His small works are usually found on doorways and walls, characterized by a large dose of humor, inventiveness, and a distinct shadow that spills onto the ground. He has chosen to make his works small, partly so that you have to approach the work closely to perceive everything and partly because he feels that so many people shout out their messages in the world anyway.

In his quest to find a simple means of expression, Pablo started from real images that he then minimized. His first impression of Sweden was that it was very clean. When he chooses motifs, he googles words that lead to different images. For the work at Subtopia, he started from the words “cleaning,” “clearing,” and “swiping” and reshaped the small parts into various compositions depicting people in different situations. With his small figures, he can highlight the world’s problematic issues without making anyone uncomfortable.

Initially, there were fourteen works by Delgado around Subtopia’s area, but since they are made of paper, they have disappeared over the years. What remains is the only one that was created indoors.