Here is Pablo Santacana López.
I work on Writing for various platforms and journals,
Editing art books,Curating cultural programs
and exhibitions
Visualizing information through  design.
Enacting public art, and Facilitating

El Salto
(2024)
Puy du Fou: 
la historia al servicio del relato reaccionario

Writing about the positioning of the theme park within the cultural battle of the New Right, tracing the use of immersive artifice to mobilize affects around an exalted national history, questioning the instrumentalization of heritage as a commercial tool for a reactionary narrative.




Para-Journal
(2023)
Stone Carving Activism

Writing about the practice of selective representation, tracing the evolution from the ancient legal practice of damnatio memoriae to modern cancelling culture, questioning how societies can increase their capacity to carve unheard voices.




Blog Fundación Arquia
(2022)
Narrar (desde) la arquitectura: 
Venecia y los relatos situados de Maria Eichhorn e Ignasi Aballí

Writing on the 59th Venice Biennale, tracing how the architectural interventions of the German and Spanish pavilions dismantle with different success institutional narratives to reveal the physical and political scars of the buildings themselves.



Texte Zur Kunst,
Issue 126: "Trauern Mourning"
(2022)
5.3 Million Objects

Writing on the exhibition “Nation, Narration, Narcosis” at the Hamburger Bahnhof, exploring the entanglement of collecting practices and embodied histories.



Arts of the Working Class,
Issue 22: “Songs for Workers”
(2022)
L'histoire n'attend que Putin

Writing on the weaponization of historical revisionism in the context of contemporary conflict, tracing the parallels between the reconstruction of imperial architecture and the expansionist "Greater Russia" narrative, questioning the role of cultural heritage in legitimizing autocratic power.




Arts of the Working Class
Issue 13: "Eurothanasia" 
(2021)
Privilege Carved in Stone

Writing on the reconstruction of the Humboldt Forum and the resignification of colonial symbols through the intangible heritage of stone masonry, questioning the use of "living culture" and craftsmanship as a tool for institutional rebranding of a Prussian past.



(2021)
Thomas Demand: El papel de la historia

Writing about the reconstruction of historical memory through the meticulous paper architectures of Thomas Demand.




El Diario
(2021)
De Hollywood a Madrid Río: 
los letreros con nombre de ciudad que invaden nuestras calles

Writing about the proliferation of oversized typographic city signs across Spanish urban landscapes, tracing the spread of a visual formula derived from the Hollywood hillside letters, questioning the confusion between civic identity and city branding that their ubiquity symptomatically reveals.




Texte Zur Kunst
(2021)
The Castle, The Palace, The Mirage

Writing on the ethics of rebuilding imperial symbols like the Humboldt Forum through the work of artist Esper Postma, questioning the phantom presence of the Berlin Palace as a hollow monument to national identity.




Kaltblut Magazine
(2021)
Spatial Struggle and Queer Resistance: 
On the consequences of lockdown 
and the response by Berlin drag activists

Writing on the performative resilience of Berlin’s drag community in reclaiming visibility and public space during the constraints of pandemic lockdowns.




ARCH+, 
Issue 241: "Berlin Theorie" 
(2020)
Der Sound des Mythos: 
Berliner Clubs zwischen Alternativkultur und Gentrifizierung

Writing on the mythologized club and the shift from alternative nightlife to urban branding, tracing the evolution of techno clubs as spatial anchors for gentrification.
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Contemporary  And C&,
Spetial printAnother 89
(2020)
Redrawing the Map of ’90s Berlin

Writing about the systemic exclusion of migrant narratives from the mythologized history of post-Wall Berlin, tracing the contributions of populations from Turkey, Vietnam, and Eastern Europe to the city’s creative upheaval.



Eigenart Magazine – UdK
(2020)
Time Loops: 
Reenactment, reconstruction and historical mimicry

Writing on the contemporary obsession with architectural reconstruction and how historical mimicry creates a loop that obscures engagement with the present.




Arts of the Working Class

Issue 19: "Anticristos" 
(2020)
El mar es la historia

Writing on the Mediterranean as a fluid archive of displacement and colonial legacy, tracing the tension between the sea as a border-graveyard and as a space for radical belonging, questioning the cartographic erasures of migrant experiences.  



Contemporary And Latinoamérica, C&LA 
(2020)
The Indians Are Coming? The “Indians” Reclaim!

Writing on decolonial museum practices and the reclamation of agency by Indigenous artists against Western exoticization.



Arts Of The Working Class 
(2019)
Racism’s Colonial Perpetuation


Writing on the reconstruction of the Humboldt Forum and the resignification of colonial symbols through the intangible heritage of stone masonry, questioning the use of "living culture" as a tool for institutional rebranding.




Statista Blog,
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
(2019)
In Conversation With Zuloark

Writing on the intersection of data visualization and architectural activism, tracing how collaborative urban research can challenge the commodification of city data.




Laciudadviva.org
Ecosistema Urbano

(2017/18)
Espacios públicos de propiedad privada

Writing on the "POPS" (Privately Owned Public Spaces) phenomenon, tracing the erosion of the public realm through corporate urbanism and the legal gray areas of contemporary city squares.




Master's Thesis, Madrid School of Architecture
(2016)
Decálogo de aprendizajes inversos

Writing on the deconstruction of heroic architectural myths to advocate for a more collaborative and grounded approach to urban planning.