Gabriel de la Mora “Sound Inscriptions on Fabric”
The Drawing Center
[Image: Gabriel de la Mora "B-91" (2015) Vintage radio speaker fabric, 12 5/8 x 9 1/8 inches. Courtesy of the artist.]
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The Drawing Center presents Mexican artist Gabriel de la Mora’s exhibition Sound Inscriptions on Fabric, an installation of fifty-five pairs of found speaker screens, each of which carries the “drawn” imprint of dust generated by the sound of countless voices, songs, commercials, news broadcasts, and static that passed through the fabric screen during the speaker’s useful life.
De la Mora, formerly an architect, is best known for constructing collections of found, discarded, and obsolete objects, such as eggshells and shoe soles, which he describes as caches for historical information about everyday life. Through a classificatory process, De la Mora deconstructs, photographs, and documents each object he accumulates. For his exhibition at The Drawing Center, De la Mora studied all of the fifty-five pairs of speaker grills with obsessive inquisitiveness to uncover the unique underlying architecture of each one. Sound Inscriptions on Fabric demonstrates De la Mora’s distinctive approach to drawing as durational and ready-made rather than an act of immediate creation by the artist’s hand. This exhibition is curated by Brett Littman, Executive Director.
Gabriel de la Mora (b. Mexico City, 1968) began his career as a practicing architect in the early 1990s before studying painting in New York. Since the early 2000s, De la Mora has presented solo- exhibitions that emphasize the role of archiving and object analysis in his practice with Timothy Taylor Gallery in London; Galería OMR in Mexico City; and Sicardi Gallery in Houston. De la Mora’s work has also been featured in solo exhibitions in Mexico at the Ampara Museum, Puebla; Museo de Arte de Sonora; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca; Museo de Arte

Contemporáneo de Colima; and the Museo Regional de Historia de Colima. In the United States, De la Mora has presented solo exhibitions at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, CA and the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, DC.
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from July 15, 2016 to September 02, 2016
Opening Reception on 2016-07-14 from 18:00 to 20:00