Gabriel Kuri untitled b/c, 2023

untitled b/c is a modified message board one might find it in a public or corporate space with directions, supplying names or room numbers and such. Here the ready-made ridges are filled with coins and cigarette butts arranged in an undiscernible pattern and juxtaposed with an apparently unordered clustering.

Among these are objects that are recurring motifs in the artist's formal vocabulary: cigarette butts and coins. As signs of expenditure of currency, time or resources, the individual items become symbols within a language of references to larger social issues.