Paco Poyato is a Spain based visual artist working in photography. The themes of his works share interest in issues related to the current consumer society and globalization. His aim being reflecting how these two concepts alter his closest reality, understanding globalization as the loss of the individual’s identity, in favor of a model that responds to criteria closely linked to the control of power and banality.

To date his work specializes in delving into the reality of different human groups that are created around a common cause that identifies them as such. A vision characterized by photographing human collectives that have shared common experiences that, in some way, serve to build, mark and also define the individual identity of its members.

The idea behind his work during the residency program at GlogauAIR, is to attest to the hidden wall that continues to divide Germany. This invisible wall can be, measured in wages, infrastructure, education, unemployment, political and economic differences that tips the balance in favor of the West. Taking the German capital as an example of what is happening in the country, Poyato shows the still latent division between the Western and Eastern parts of Berlin, through the study of landscape, both urban and human, as well as collecting street found objects that testify to that still latent difference.