Gabriel de la Mora: La Petite Mort

“Gabriel de la Mora: La Petite Mort” is an in-depth survey of the artist’s practice over the past two decades. The exhibition brings together nearly ninety works with minimal and often monochromatic surfaces that belie great technical complexity, conceptual rigour, and embedded information.

Born in Mexico City in 1968, Gabriel de la Mora is known for transforming found, discarded, and obsolete materials through seemingly alchemic processes into exquisite objects with lustrous and alluring finishes. The exhibition explores the recurring presence of desire and eroticism in de la Mora’s practice, engaging both the surface tension of the works and the deeper unconscious creative drives that inform them. There is also an implied loss—a symbolic or physical death—present in the majority of de la Mora’s artworks, most often revealed through the materials he uses.

Structured around six thematic sections—Bodies, Erasure, Heat, The Edge of Desire, Touch, and The Pleasure of the Viewer—the exhibition explores two central preoccupations in de la Mora’s work: death itself and ecstatic sexual pleasure.

Co-organised by Museo Jumex and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO), La Petite Mort is guest-curated by Tobias Ostrander with coordination by Museo Jumex Curatorial Assistant Carolina Estrada Garcia.