GABRIEL DE LA MORA

Worn soles of shoes, damaged photographs, matchboxes and found paintings are passed through a process of pentimento–of reworking, erasing and altering–generating palimpsest works that convey the effects of the passage of time, natural elements and histories of use; galvanising these narratives through a regulated surface.

With a working methodology that is as mystical as it is disciplined, de la Mora’s use of repetition connects with notions of Zen philosophy, whereby recurrent actions lead to a meditative practice. These, in turn, have the power to decelerate time; or in this instance, suspend it.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Gabriel de la Mora: Entropías, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico (2018), Crystals of Inevidence, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX, USA (2017), Gabriel de la Mora: Sound inscriptions on fabric, The Drawing Center, New York, USA (2016); Galería OMR, Mexico City, Mexico (2015); Lo que no vemos lo que nos mira, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico (2014); Lucíferos, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, USA (2014); Señales Aleatorias/Ruido Blanco, Museo de Arte de Sonora (MUSAS), Mexico (2012); Exposición Panamericana, NC-arte, Bogotá, Colombia (2012); Ruido Blanco / White Noise, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO), Oaxaca, Mexico (2011); Frágil/Fragile, Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), Long Beach, USA (2011).

De la Mora’s works are represented in collections internationally including: Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA; Art Museum of the Americas, Organisation of American States, Washington D.C., USA; Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico; Fudación Televisa, Mexico City, Mexico; Perez Art Museum, Miami, USA; Colección Banco de la Republica, Bogota, Colombia; ARTIUM, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain; Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA; Colección FEMSA, Monterrey, Mexico; Fundación/Colección JUMEX, Mexico City, Mexico; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA; and The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, USA.

Gabriel de la Mora was born in 1968 in Mexico and now lives and works in Mexico City. He studied architecture with honours in Mexico City (1987–1991) and received his MFA with honours from the Pratt Institute, New York in 2003, through the support of a Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholarship, and a Jacques and Natasha Gelman Scholarship.

Courtesy Timothy Taylor