The research-based practice of Gala Porras-Kim (*1984) considers the complex relationship between cultural artifacts and the conventions governing their collection, conservation, display and taxonomy. By revealing overlapping areas in institutional collections, where items are classified as either information, science or art, she questions the conceptual frameworks and individual choices that inform our reading and presentation of objects as works of art. The resulting work – spanning drawing, sculpture and installation – offers poetic, provocative and spiritual forms of engagement with the ideas and beliefs that shape our histories.
Photo: Marco Zorzanello. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
Gala Porras-Kim
Applied Arts Pavilion, a special project of La Biennale di Venezia and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Arsenale, Sale d’Armi, Venice
Through November 22, 2026
Congratulations to Gala Porras-Kim who has been invited to the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh. Gala Porras-Kim’s work will be on view at the Applied Arts Pavilion, a special project of La Biennale di Venezia and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
As written by co-curator Gabe Beckhurst Feijoo, Porras-Kim’s project brings together drawings, sculptures and video that reflect her ongoing engagement with frameworks of conservation and the processes by which museum practitioners shape the meaning and function of heritage objects in both destructive and generative ways.
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