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FIA’s Lost & Found Agency series presented The Great Decentering: Topographies of the Rural, a talk by Pablo Larios moderated by Nicolaus Schafhausen & Micaela Dixon. The post-pandemic era has witnessed a significant challenge to dominant forms of economic and cultural globalization. Trade wars and real wars are redrawing the map of an artistic terrain once defined by globalism and free movement. In The Great Decentering, Pablo Larios argued that the space of this transformation can be seen not in cities, but in rural or extra-urban spaces where the lines of the past are being negotiated and contested.

Pablo Larios is an author and art critic based in Berlin, Germany. Larios was born in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and raised in the rural US, in Oklahoma and Colorado. His writing on art and culture grounds contemporary artists’ work within multidisciplinary contexts. Alongside his practice as an art critic and non-fiction writer, he has written fiction, poetry and plays, and made short films.

As an art critic, Larios contributes exhibition reviews, columns and feature articles to magazines such as frieze, Mousse, 032c, Spike Art Quarterly, Kaleidoscope, Texte zur Kunst and Art Papers. He contributes to books and artists’ catalogues, and has provided writing for biennales such as the Berlin Biennale (2016), the Istanbul Biennial (2017, 2019) and documenta fifteen (2022). With the artist Ed Atkins, he runs Plea, a small press for experimental fiction and poetry. Larios was Editor-At-Large for documenta fifteen.