Introduction

The first comprehensive institutional survey exhibition of Gabriel Kuri’s work in Mexico, Gabriel Kuri: Forecast includes more than 50 new and existing works, among them a major new installation. Working primarily in a sculptural language, Kuri is known for his combination of robust and durable materials with everyday detritus, which add lightness and visual humor to these physical juxtapositions.

Embedded in Kuri’s works over the past 10 years are references to predictive modelling drawn from a range of fields, most significantly behavioral economics, as well as meteorology, vulcanology, product testing, and the credit system. Each of these sciences or disciplines identifies certain forces that help to analyze, create, or defer value and risk in the future. Kuri associates these significant if unseen forces of the contemporary to his artistic production by moving between signs and objects, affect and effect, psychological impulses and rational systems, that in turn relate his work to the legacy of surrealism and to formal modernism.

A catalogue of the exhibition is forthcoming.

Gabriel Kuri
Forecast
Museo Jumex
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 303
Colonia Granada
11520 Mexico City
June 22 – October 15, 2023
www.fundacionjumex.org