Gabriel de la Mora

Exhibited by Proyectos Monclova Gallery

Material 604 Callicore cynosura butterfly wings fragments on museum cardboard, framed in walnut wood with museum glass.

Dimensions 20 × 20 × 6 cm

Place of Creation Mexico City

Price €17,500

Status Vetted

About the Work

For Lepidóptera, De la Mora uses butterfly wings to create mosaics based on the repitition of patterns that reveal the differences between each fragment used. These variations are determined by the amount of genetic information, which is a macro-account of the species, intertwined with traces of the life of each individual, whose time and natural environment defined its unique characteristics. The wing fragments - acquired in butterfly farms that promote the collection of specimens killed by natural causes for the preservation of species at risk of extinction forming planes that are resolved in a uniformity that is sometimes geometric, sometimes fractal.