b. 1999
Werner Pellehn Blum (b. 1999, Guayaquil, Ecuador) is a writer, artist, and filmmaker whose practice bridges the literary and the visual. Trained in literature and film, he holds an MA in English Literature from Northeastern University in Boston and dual BAs in Political Science and Film Production from Loyola University Chicago. He is currently pursuing graduate studies at New York University’s XE program. His work explores themes of memory, migration, loss, and nostalgia, moving between painting and collage photography as ways of translating his writings into visual form. Einfühlung, his first solo exhibition, was presented at the German Cultural Center in Guayaquil in the summer of 2025.
EINFÜHLUNG
The debut exhibition of Ecuadorian-German artist Werner Pellehn Blum (b.1999) at the German Cultural Center in Guayaquil, Ecuador on view from August 21st, 2025.
“Drawing on the exhibition’s title, Einfühlung, a German term that means 'feeling into' or ‘empathy’ Pellehn Pellehn Blum establishes a framework with which to understand his works, through the defining concept of German Romanticism of the same name, which emphasizes the emotional connection developed between the viewer and an artwork. Through visceral, gestural brushstrokes and innovatively collaged photography, both evocative of the fragmentation of memory, the artist stirs the human capacity to project feelings onto objects. This in turn engages the viewer to experience the artist’s works as if they were based on their own memories, a feeling akin to reading a book or seeing a movie where the plot and characters personally resonate, except here it is achieved within the context of an art gallery.”
-Tatiana Marcel, excerpt from the curatorial text.
Tatiana Marcel is an Assistant Curator at Americas Society and a PhD student at CUNY’s Graduate Center.
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