Beauty in Waste

Integrating the context of everyday life into his works, Gabriel Kuri works across collage and sculpture to produce works focusing on the objects and space that mediate human relationships, through a minimalist approach. Born 1970 from Mexico, Kuri consumption and consumerism acts as his material, taking inspiration from receipts Kuri re-imagines them into huge exquisite wall tapestries; in turn reflecting connotations to an everyday throw away society. Transforming an item such as a receipt into an item of immense scale and beauty, strongly identified an element of value in waste and turning something ugly into something beloved. The balance and mixing of beauty within waste, consumption and consumerism, is an aspect of visual and theoretical interest. Kuri’s work questions the contemporary culture, creating poetic juxtapositions to find the extraordinary in daily life. Gabriel Kuri currently lives and works in Los Angeles, United States.