Yuri Pattison

Yuri Pattison explores notions of cultural spaces, circulation of information and communication technologies through digital media, sculpture and combinations and juxtapositions of the two. Drawing inspiration from the discrepancies of the technological age, Pattison’s work navigates the visual cultures of digital economies, online and offline circuits and labour flexibility in the contemporary workspace. The artist combines data and metadata with archival and historical materials to produce engineered, anti-aesthetic installations with multi-screens, monitors and exhibition hard-ware. The visible cables run along the installations, which exist both off and online, making connections while alluding to the dissociation between the digital and the real and the lack of transparency it produces. From tech start-ups to colonialism to economics, Pattison’s work manoeuvres the blurred lines of our contemporaneity. ...

Founded by Pamela Echeverría in Mexico City, LABOR opened in 2009 working with artists whose creative processes are based on long term research. They have a strong commitment with the visions and concerns that their artists have towards the contemporary social/political context. They work with a mix of young and mid-career artists, both Mexican and international. With whom they work closely and assume an active role in the projects they develop. The work of these artists address topics such as value and exchange; economic systems and social structures; the exploitation of natural resources, the ethics of human behaviour, and the hidden political structures of society. ...