Gabriel Kuri preemptive particles 8/1/2, 2024

The sculpture brings together disparate shapes and objects. While the configuration suggests an oblique message or system, a major theme in the artist's practice, these are always only associative and not made explicit. Thus, the hard shell gourd may refer to its use as vessel in Mesoamerica since 8000 BCE; the enlarged bean may be reminiscent of over-dimensional toys or invoke fairy tales for some; and the two discs vaguely recall Kuri's recurring motif of greatly enlarged coins. Yet, the significance of Kuri's sculptures lie less in any direct references than in signifying abstract processes, ways of thinking and organizing knowledge through formal relationships between the elements.