Photo: Hong Zhang. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin
Photo: Hong Zhang. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin
Photo: Hong Zhang. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin
Photo: Hong Zhang. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin
Photo: Hong Zhang. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin
Photo: Hong Zhang. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin

Perrotin Shanghai is pleased to dedicate a solo booth at Westbund 2022 of new works by Mexican artist Gabriel de la Mora. De la Mora’s practice focuses on the construction of seemingly minimal yet extremely complex surfaces that are underlined by intense mathematical precision. As both a collector of objects and fascinated by science, he began to make geometric compositions with elements that contain genetic material — human hair, feathers, eggshells, or most recently, butterfly wings. For this new body of work, titled “Lepidoptera,” De la Mora mines the rich cultural symbolism of the butterfly, sourcing the material from butterfly conservation farms in Peru and Indonesia.