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Gala Porras-Kim

Born in 1984, Bogotá, Colombia

Lives and works in Los Angeles, United States

Overview

Gala Porras-Kim's practice interrogates the processes and ethics of museum conservation and, more broadly, the collections and institutions within which contested artefacts are housed and preserved. Porras-Kim is interested in the politics and policies museums adopt in the contemporary moment and how they negotiate with problematic pasts. The artist often uses letters as exhibition captions – sometimes written to institutions propositions for approaches to improve the conditions of their artefac...Read more

Selected artworks
Gala Porras-Kim
Kismet futures (13-24), 2022
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Gala Porras-Kim
Cappella Arcivescovile, Ravenna, marble floor reconstruction, 2022
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San Vitale, Ravenna, marble floor reconstruction, 2024
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Eremina Rediva, 2022
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Gala Porras-Kim
Joined decouple, 2017
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31 west Mexico ceramics from LACMA collection: Jalisco index, 2017
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One clump of raffia reconstruction, 2016
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Vessel and the grave, 2017
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Stacked vessels and the grave, 2017
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Stacked vessels and the grave, 2017
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Mesoamerican Negative Space 2, 2017
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Mesoamerican Negative Space 1, 2017
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Tabula recta, 2013
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Mapping tones (all documented Zapotec dialects in Oaxaca), 2012
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Projections 2, 2015
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Projections 1, 2015
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Mapping stones (predominant rock types of sub basins in Papaloapan river basin), 2015
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The writing of stones, 2015
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Composite artifact 3, 2015
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Composite artifact 2, 2015
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Composite artifact 1, 2015
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Future Spaces Replicate Earlier Spaces (Stacked Acrobats 2), 2016
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Future Spaces Replicate Earlier Spaces (Stacked Acrobats 1), 2016
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Future Spaces Replicate Earlier Spaces (Staff/Vessel), 2016
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Reconstructed Southwest Artifact 4, 2018
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Reconstructed Southwest Artifact 3, 2018
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Reconstructed Southwest Artifact 2, 2018
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Reconstructed Southwest Artifact 1, 2018
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2 embroidered fragments from Kertch reconstruction, 2018
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2 embroidered tiger-dragon fragments at the MET reconstruction, 2018
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One bent metal tube, n.d. reconstruction, 2018
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Joined decouple, 2017
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Vessel with lip 8, 2017
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Vessel, 2017
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Lid, 2017
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Vessel with lip 2, 2017
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Vessel with lip 1, 2017
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Vessel with lip 3, 2017
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Vessel with lip 4, 2017
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Vessel with lip 5, 2017
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Vessel with lip 6, 2017
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Vessel with lip 7, 2017
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Three joined gourds vessel, 2017
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Dog vessel, 2017
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Two joined Buddha’s hands vessel, 2017
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Three joined acrobats vessel, 2017
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A View from within the Ground, 2019
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13 International Dogs, 2019
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17 International Magic Objects, 2019
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11 Mesoamerican Multiple Perspectives, 2019
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11 Mesoamerican Shamans, 2019
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Slab 6-6059 top half, unknown provenance, illuminated text, 2020
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1 dry idol with arm, bark with copal, six idol limbs, 2020
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13 dry small shell artifacts from the Cenote of Sacrifice, 2020
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A terminal escape from the place that binds us, 2020
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A terminal escape from the place that binds us, 2020
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1 offering for the rain from the Peabody Museum
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Plate 39. Decorated rectangles and discs: a. reduced five-circle design; b. petal designs (see p. 37) (Proskouvlakoff p. 78), 2021
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Plate 40. Decorated discs with petal designs: a. normal petal motif; b. variants (see p.37) (Proskouvlakoff, p.79), 2021
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Fig. 76. Copper bells, a, style A; b, Style Aa. Scale, ca. 2/3. (Lothrop, p. 87), 2021
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Fig. 81, Copper bells of Styles D, D1, D2 and D3. Scale, ca. 2/3. (Lothrop, p. 89), 2021
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Forecasting Signal, 2021
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130 offerings for the rain at the Peabody Museum, 2021
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203 offerings for the rain at the Peabody Museum, 2021
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124 offerings for the rain at the Peabody Museum, 2021
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122 offerings for the rain at the Peabody Museum, 2021
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70 offerings for the rain at the Peabody Museum, 2021
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44 offerings for the rain at the Peabody Museum, 2021
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Fig. 54. Gold cap and face, probably from an idol. Scales: a, 2/3; 6, 3/4. See table XXXVI. (Lothrop, p. 70), 2021
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Request to the Neighborhood Council, 2010
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Q's - Proposal for a Sign Addition to Q's Nightclub, 2010
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Values, 2010
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Ah Yah, 2010
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Remembering Places by the Shape of their Billboard 1 - Vermont by Olympic, 2010
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I Want to Prepare to Learn Something I Don't Know, 2010
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Kevin Costner / Lt. John Dunbar / Dances with Wolves, 2011
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Whistling Score, 2012
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Box for Sentence Structure, 2012
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Cheat Sheet, 2012
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For Learning Zapotec Verbs, 2012
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Rongorongo text S (RR16), by appendages, 2013
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Proto Elamite (MDP 17, 036), round to straight marks, 2013
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Proto Elamite (MDP 06, 5242), by number of strokes, 2013
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Proto Elamite (MDP 17, 085), by scale, 2013
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Rongorongo text B (RR4), alien, human, animal, to plant, 2013
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Tequixtepec del Rey, Monument 1, transfer stone, 2013
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Stone CCA-t5-16, transfer stone, 2013
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San Pablo Coatlan Plate 40, transfer stone, 2013
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San Miguel Sola Monument 1, transfer stone, 2013
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Yaguila Monument 1, transfer slab, 2013
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La Mojarra Stella, transfer slab, 2013
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Cascajal Block, transfer slab, 2013
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Phaistos disk, by frequency, 2013
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