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Gabriel Kurigain payé, 2023

Hand woven wool gobelin

267 x 158.5 x 6 cm

About the artist

focuses on objects and spaces that mediate human relationships to explore the untapped potential for transformation in the everyday. Engaging the principles of minimalism and capitalist consumption, he integrates elements of the familiar his collages and sculptures. Residues of human interactions—plastic bags, advertising flyers, receipts and tickets—are brought together through unexpected encounters with stones, coins and cigarette butts, as well as industrial materials, such as cement, brushed steel and insulation rolls. Often accompanied by idioms and vernacular phrases, his pieces invite a multilayered dialogue between the verbal and the visual. Kuri questions the given tenets of contemporary culture through poetic juxtapositions and hybrid objects that rethink the mundane and present the eloquence and extraordinary in daily life. From 1987 to 1991, Kuri attended Gabriel Orozco’s workshop Taller de los viernes together with Abraham Cruzvillegas, Damián Ortega and Dr. Lakra. In 1992, he received a BA in Visual Arts from Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (UNAM) in Mexico City, and completed his MFA at Goldsmiths, University of London, in 1995. He was artist in residence at the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (2007), Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand (2006), and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida (2002). Kuri was selected for an Artist Commission at The Armory Show in 2011 and shortlisted for the BelgianArtPrize 2019. Gabriel Kuri lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.

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