Eamon Ore-Giron: Chilango Smoke

Multiplicity and simultaneity are central to Eamon Ore-Giron’s wide-ranging practice. Across his interconnected pursuits in painting, music, and video, the artist synthesises formal histories to explore the visual, auditory, and experiential possibilities of cross-cultural influence.

In his abstract geometric paintings, Eamon Ore-Giron combines motifs and symbols drawn from sources that span geographies and time: the stylised geometry of Incan jewellery, Brazilian Neo-Concretism, Italian Futurism, and the spatial arrangements of Russian Suprematism. Inserting pictorial and rhythmic structures from the Global South into an expanded history of transnational abstraction, Ore-Giron’s works embody what curator Marcela Guerrero refers to as ‘the sound and colour of mestizo synaesthesia’.

In this exhibition, organised by James Cohan Gallery, the artist’s richly coloured compositions draw on vocabularies of architecture, textiles, maps, hieroglyphics, and astral charts to arrive at a visual language that is uniquely his own. Bringing the past into dialogue with the contemporary, his practice seeks to destabilise linear, European art-historical inheritances by suggesting a shared heritage of forms and ideas.