Cortes, fragmentos y cicatrices: a dialogue on the work of Gabriel de la Mora

The Museo Jumex presents the conversation Cortes, fragmentos y cicatrices: a dialogue on the work of Gabriel de la Mora.

The curator of the exhibition Gabriel de la Mora: La Petite Mort, Tobias Ostrander, will engage in a conversation with art critic and researcher María Minera and writer and philosopher Pablo Soler Frost about De la Mora’s artistic practice. The discussion, moderated by Kit Hammonds, Chief Curator at Museo Jumex, will take as its starting point key concepts present in the artist’s work, such as memory, wear, and repetition.

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María Minera (Mexico City, 1973) Art critic and researcher. She has published in media outlets such as El País, Letras Libres, La Tempestad, and Código. Author of numerous exhibition catalog texts in Mexico and abroad, including Apariencia desnuda: el deseo y el objeto en la obra de Marcel Duchamp y Jeff Koons, aun (Fundación Jumex–Phaidon, 2019) and Anni Albers (Tate, 2018).

Pablo Soler Frost (Mexico City, 1965) Writer, essayist, translator, and draftsman. Recipient of the National Youth Prize (1987) and the Bellas Artes Colima Narrative Award (2009). A multiple-time member of the National System of Art Creators, he is recognized for his literary contributions and collaborations with artists such as Gabriel Orozco and Anish Kapoor.

Tobias Ostrander (Boston, 1970) Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art at Tate. He previously served as Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (2011–2019), as well as Director of Museo Experimental El Eco and Chief Curator of Museo Tamayo. He has organized major international exhibitions and co-founded Tilting Axis, a platform for art and thought in the Greater Caribbean.

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