Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Stefanie Keenan.
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
Mapping stones (predominant rock types of sub basins in Papaloapan river basin), 2015
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Gala Porras-Kim
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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Gala Porras-Kim
Plate 40. Decorated discs with petal designs: a. normal petal motif; b. variants (see p.37) (Proskouvlakoff, p.79), 2021
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Gala Porras-Kim
Fig. 76. Copper bells, a, style A; b, Style Aa. Scale, ca. 2/3. (Lothrop, p. 87), 2021
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Gala Porras-Kim
Fig. 81, Copper bells of Styles D, D1, D2 and D3. Scale, ca. 2/3. (Lothrop, p. 89), 2021
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