Artist Biography

Adrian Pepe is a Honduran fiber artist based in Lebanon. His artistic practice is an ongoing investigation  on process and material. Through his work, he interweaves nature and culture to create objects as tools  to enable an open discourse on materiality, our morphing cultural landscape, and present condition. Pepe’s work is rooted in textiles, spanning site-specific installations to durational performances. By  directly engaging with the sentient providers of raw materials— whether plant or animal— Pepe forges relational ties that manifest in objects and events imbued with artistry, sweat, perspiration, mythology,  and symbolism; transforming acts of making into speculative, embodied rituals that test and extend our  understanding of material agency, ecological intimacy, and the poetics of labor.