DÉBORA DELMAR ON GENTRIFICATION AND ARCHITECTURE
Liberty & Security is the exhibition at Jumex by Débora Delmar (Mexico 1986) in which she delves into the effects of globalization on everyday life, based on a critique of privatization and the homogenization of public space. The artist investigates the physical and symbolic impacts of architecture present in gentrification, consumism and surveillance in the urban environment.
In a series of new works, Delmar reflects on how the gallery, museum, and neighborhood are tied to consumption and identity, as well as the ways in which their boundaries define class through access and control. With the use of fences, security devices, and commercial signs in her assemblages, each element becomes a signifier of the ideologies of homogenization, internationalization, and globalization that permeate the everyday.
Débora Delmar 's practice focuses on the circulation of objects, images and people within the realms of globalization, immigration and property through the physical and symbolic barriers that order them. Her installations often refer to non-places that appear utilitarian and in turn are instrumental in promoting uniformity through the use of minimalist aesthetics.
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Vista de la exposición Débora Delmar: Liberty & Security. Museo Jumex, 2024. Foto: Ramiro Chaves.
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Vista de la exposición Débora Delmar: Liberty & Security. Museo Jumex, 2024. Foto: Ramiro Chaves.
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Vista de la exposición Débora Delmar: Liberty & Security. Museo Jumex, 2024. Foto: Ramiro Chaves.
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Vista de la exposición Débora Delmar: Liberty & Security. Museo Jumex, 2024. Foto: Ramiro Chaves.
She is currently a Stanley Picker Gallery Fellow at Kingston University in London, where she is preparing a solo exhibition for 2025. She received the Jumex Foundation Scholarship for Study Abroad (2016-2018) and the Young Creators Scholarship, FONCA CONACULTA (2012-2013). Her work has been included in the Femsa Biennial, Michoacán (2020-2021); the Berlin Biennial (2016) and the Biennial of the Americas (2015). Her solo exhibitions include, Castles, LLANO, Mexico City (2023); Liberty, GALLLERIA PÌU, Bologna (2022); [ ], Interface Gallery, Oakland (2020), among others.
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