spending static to save gas Gabriel Kuri
September 23, 2018—January 6, 2019
Oakville Galleries, Ontario

spending static to save gas Gabriel Kuri

Exhibition view: spending static to save gas, Oakville Galleries, Ontario, 2018 Photo © Jimmy Limit

Press Release

Encompassing work in sculpture, collage, installation and other media, Mexican-born, Brussels-based artist Gabriel Kuri frequently uses repurposed materials—natural, industrial and otherwise—to link questions of form with larger conversations surrounding how commodities are valued, circulated and assigned function. Inspired as readily by the principles of minimalism as by material histories, Kuri's works highlight the contingent and vernacular life of a given material or object alongside its more rational or systematic utility. For his first solo exhibition...
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