576 - I / PL | Gabriel DE LA MORA (2016) | PERROTIN

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Gabriel
DE LA MORA

576 - I / PL, 2016

Plastic, wood

180 x 240 x 6 cm | 70 7/8 x 94 1/2 x 2 3/8 inch

Unique

Courtesy Perrotin

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photograph : CLAIRE DORN

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This diptych is composed of two panels, each displaying a grid of 288 shoe soles cut into a rectangle. The two sides of the diptych represent the left and right foot of each pair of shoes, displayed in a mirrored configuration. The soles have been collected in shoe repair shops all over Mexico City and function as a myriad of social clues. Seemingly repetitions of the same object, they bear the marks of unique lives; different shapes of holes (exactly half of the 288 pairs bear holes) including circular holes that indicate spinning on one foot and belonging to dancers, some hinting the owner may have been left or right handed, some with hand written inscriptions and others numbered by cobbler.

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