Héctor Zamora (*1974, Mexico City) is a São Paulo-based artist whose work visualises the relationship between past and present. Working across various mediums, re-contextualising the physical properties of weight and balance, gravity and buoyancy, Zamora creates geometries from histories. Yet because his projects are ephemeral, these materialised connections are never fixed in space or time. Rather, their physical fluctuations mirror the caprices of history, illuminating and suggesting ways of reconstructing the past by reconsidering the present.
Hypars Intersections
To be a Latin American artist is to be trapped in a double-bind of marginality: either tasked with consistently challenging the Western art historical canon, or accused of remaining confined within it. Born in Mexico City, the artist Héctor Zamora confronts this problem in a number of ways via his installation works.
One of his tactics is to flaunt the expectation of working directly with his cultural heritage by focusing on universals: geometric forms, mathematical truths, expressive colours, natural phenomena. This can be seen in works like his recent Hypars Intersections series, shown at the Zona Maco fair in 2014, in which concrete has been moulded to form a series of delicate origami-like shapes and then presented in a series of permutations on a wooden display rack. Emperors of form like Donald Judd might be impressed; but so would Oscar Niemeyer. I (ew)
Photo: “Hypars Intersections” series, 2014 © Héctor Zamora
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