2,264 - He.Le. (1,271 He.Le. + 993 He.Le.)
Framed (each): 13 3/4 × 13 3/4 × 2 3/8 inches (35 × 35 × 6 cm)
Image (each): 11 13/16 × 11 13/16 × 13/16 inches (30 × 30 × 2 cm)
Artist de la Mora, who is dyslexic, often rearranges visual phenomena into new patterns. He has written, "When you don't understand the information that is in front of you or what you hear, it immediately transforms itself into fragments, noise, sounds and in an infinite amount of things that have nothing to do with the reality of things or with what the things really are."
Here, de la Mora rearranged hundreds or thousands of butterfly wings, which he collected from ethically managed conservation farms, into mosaic-like patterns. Butterflies communicate through their coloration. This rearrangement, therefore, transforms the ways the butterflies "speak" in the natural world and creates a new language of pattern.
The artist;
Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City;
Purchased by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, December 2022.
Gabriela Rangel, “Gabriel de la Mora: Lepidoptera,” Perrotin New York, exhibition brochure. Perrotin New York, 2021.