Starting this Saturday, November 20th at the Amant, galleries located in New York City, “Precipitation for an Arid Landscape” is the first individual exhibition on the East Coast of Gala Porras-Kim.

The exhibition centers on four recent installations that will be set in dialogue with several earlier, complementary works, which establish a deeper context of the artist’s practice.
Grounded in specific archeological points of reference, the works consider the creation, acquisition, conservation, study, display, description, and circulation of art and cultural artifacts. Porras-Kim shows how these processes displace an object’s original functions and instead shape a different sense of history, identity, and social relations. Aware of these constructs, the artist explores the lives and stories of the artifacts, raising questions about how objects speak, for whom, and for what purposes.

Curated by Ruth Estévez and Adam Kleinman.
Organized and produced by Amant in cooperation with KADIST.

Until March 17th, 2022.