Unidades Materiales

Guided tour with Curator David Eardley at Avant.Dev, presenting Unidades Materiales.

David Eardley is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and writer based in Cuidad de México. His work explores the relationship between materials and the human experience. He is the founder of Pink Essay, a creative studio exploring the design of space through collaborations and special projects.

About Material Units

Materials are transformed into action in Material Units, an interdisciplinary exhibition curated by David Eardley. Each artist will create a work composed of a building unit repeated—through the act of repetition, we are able to reduce creation to one stream of expression, wherein all the variant aspects of the creative process are condensed. This serves as an exploration of the role of material as both concept and the medium.

This thematic guideline is one iteration of my central motto, “design for all.” My goal for each branch of my work is to create opportunities and infrastructure for design and material arts that exist outside of the luxury unary, focusing instead on the relationship between the mind, body, and materiality and the lessons within. Through this exhibition, I hope to dissolve the boundaries and constraints imposed by this unary and instead facilitate a new kind of relationship between the maker and the material, encouraging the artist to release the variations of concept and instead become intimately familiar with the potential of their material.

Participating artists: Sofia Ordaz, Daniel Adolfo, Danielle Firoozi, Xime Prieto, Maximiliano Rosiles, Kara Rooney, Disciplina Studio, Chelsea G, Andy Medina, Ramón Saturnino

About Avant.Dev

Avant.Dev is a curatorial studio based in Mexico City that explores multiverses in creative ways through art with interdisciplinary formats in thought and matter.

— Avant.Dev