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The Armory Show 2023, Focus Section: "Inheritances: material and otherwise," curated by Candice Hopkins

7 - 10 September 2023 
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: ektor garcia, empezar, 2018 - 2023
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: ektor garcia, esferas telarañas, 2023
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: ektor garcia, colgante II, 2019
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: ektor garcia, conchotas, 2023
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: ektor garcia, fleisch und stahl (portal gdlbushwiqué), 2020
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: ektor garcia, tzintzuntzan, 2018
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: ektor garcia, hombre cadena, 2019
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: ektor garcia, doble mano, 2023
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: ektor garcia, metal y cobre, 2023
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: ektor garcia, mecatl, 2018
  • ektor garcia, empezar, 2018 - 2023
  • ektor garcia, esferas telarañas, 2023
  • ektor garcia, colgante II, 2019
  • ektor garcia, conchotas, 2023
  • ektor garcia, fleisch und stahl (portal gdlbushwiqué), 2020
  • ektor garcia, tzintzuntzan, 2018
  • ektor garcia, hombre cadena, 2019
  • ektor garcia, doble mano, 2023
  • ektor garcia, metal y cobre, 2023
  • ektor garcia, mecatl, 2018
ektor garcia, empezar, 2018 - 2023
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Through his multidisciplinary practice, ektor garcia challenges the hierarchies of gendered and racialized labor, combining a queer punk sensibility with the handcraft traditions of Mexico, his ancestral homeland. Reconfiguring and undoing to start anew, to find new points of connection and possibility, are integral tenets of garcia’s practice. Undoing the knot is as important as reknotting. Engaging vernacular and craft practices historically cast in diminutive or marginalized roles, the artist confers renewed value through intimate, ritual processes. The resulting objects are hybrid in nature—both malleable and solid, dense and porous, sharp and supple—evoking the body and its labor.  

Deeply varied textures, techniques, and materials coexist in garcia’s works, from lace, weaving, and crochet to stoneware and metalwork. In a series of evocative sculptures, the artist incorporates ceramic and glass chain links shaped to mimic bone, together with copper hanging wreaths inspired by Victorian hair art and its role in memorial and mourning. Other sculptures hover in time, snapshots of a moment, floating somewhere between ancient craft techniques, family heirlooms, and future artifacts. 
  • Armory Show website

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