Gala Porras-Kim (Bogotá, 1984), received an MFA from CalArts and an MA in Latin American Studies from UCLA. She has had recent solo shows at Commonwealth and Council, LABOR, and Headlands, and has been included in exhibitions at LACMA and Whitney Museum in 2017, Hammer Museum, the Los Angeles Public Art Biennial, The 44th Salon Nacional de Artistas, Colombia and at the FRAC Pays de la Loire, France in 2016. She received awards from Artadia and Rema Hort Mann in 2017, the Joan Mitchell Foundation in 2016, Creative Capital and Tiffany Foundation in 2015, and the California Community Foundation in 2013.
Gala Porras-Kim uses the social and political contexts that influence the representation of language and history to make art objects through the learning process. Her work comes from research-based practice, including different methodologies in the fields of linguistics, history, and conservation.
The new body of works she created for the Future Generation Art Prize 2019 consists of drawings, sculptures and sound installation. Porras-Kim, working with the National Institute of Archaeology and History in Mexico, created official replicas of two plain monoliths that were recently found inside the top of the Sun Pyramid at Teotihuacan and extracted. She proposes to put them back to reconstitute the elements for rituals which might have taken place at the site. The works also include a large drawing of their original setting within the monument and the sound of a year-long cycle of the sun mixed with pyramid interior ambient sound. Two final works address mediated sunlight, one filtered through the eyelids and a brass work that is waiting for direct sunlight to be activated.
Gala Porras-Kim (Bogotá, 1984), received an MFA from CalArts and an MA in Latin American Studies from UCLA. She has had recent solo shows at Commonwealth and Council, LABOR, and Headlands, and has been included in exhibitions at LACMA and Whitney Museum in 2017, Hammer Museum, the Los Angeles Public Art Biennial, The 44th Salon Nacional de Artistas, Colombia and at the FRAC Pays de la Loire, France in 2016. She received awards from Artadia and Rema Hort Mann in 2017, the Joan Mitchell Foundation in 2016, Creative Capital and Tiffany Foundation in 2015, and the California Community Foundation in 2013.
Gala Porras-Kim uses the social and political contexts that influence the representation of language and history to make art objects through the learning process. Her work comes from research-based practice, including different methodologies in the fields of linguistics, history, and conservation.
The new body of works she created for the Future Generation Art Prize 2019 consists of drawings, sculptures and sound installation. Porras-Kim, working with the National Institute of Archaeology and History in Mexico, created official replicas of two plain monoliths that were recently found inside the top of the Sun Pyramid at Teotihuacan and extracted. She proposes to put them back to reconstitute the elements for rituals which might have taken place at the site. The works also include a large drawing of their original setting within the monument and the sound of a year-long cycle of the sun mixed with pyramid interior ambient sound. Two final works address mediated sunlight, one filtered through the eyelids and a brass work that is waiting for direct sunlight to be activated.
