GABRIEL DE LA MORA
Gabriel de la Mora is a Mexican visual artist whose work focuses on the transformation of discarded objects, obsolete or found materials, exploring concepts such as the passage of time, permanence and finitude.
With a degree in Architecture from Universidad Anáhuac Norte and a master's degree in Painting from the Pratt Institute in New York, he develops a practice that combines painting, sculpture, and drawing, deconstructing traditional media and reappropriating the ordinary—hair, fragments of utilitarian objects, even eggshells or butterfly wings—to generate works that challenge the notion of artistic creation, recovering matter and meaning.
His pieces are part of important international collections such as Colección JUMEX, MOCA Los Angeles, Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City, among others, and have been exhibited both in Mexico and in galleries and museums abroad.
@GABRIELDELAMORA118
2025
13M AL DERECHO Y AL REVÉS
The work was created when the artist was in kindergarten, at the age of four. It was an exercise to learn the letters of the alphabet; in this case, the lowercase letter "m." The teacher asked him to repeat the letter "m" written by the teacher 19 times, with a space between each letter. After completing the task, he repeated it on the back of the page, as a left-handed and dyslexic person: from right to left. Of the 123 "m" letters he wrote, 99 were written from right to left; 23 from left to right; and half from right to left and the other half from left to right. In total, there are 294 letters, 19 written by the teacher and 275 by the child. Only when he finished high school, at 18, did Gabriel resume his personal notes and inverted signature, becoming his true self in his architecture and art studies.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio | @oscardambrosioinsta
GABRIEL
by himself
Dyslexia is an essence, a primordial part of my work.
