14 October - 22 November 2008
For his first solo show in London and with Sadie Coles HQ, Mexican artist Gabriel Kuri presents Model for a Victory Parade. The title piece for the show comprises a simple conveyor belt with a squashed energy drink can stuck at one end, perpetually tumbling like an accidental metronome. This debris of an imagined ceremony, while holding multiple connotations, offers a material emphasis on the politics of energy consumption. Whatever the impetus for the parade, whatever the regime or prevailing power for which it stands, Kuri presents a vision of what will inevitably be left behind. Meanwhile, in a characteristically capricious gesture, Kuri creates a towering mass of receipts, one of his signature readymades. Anchored in concrete and running floor-to-ceiling, this piece is bound by what Mercedes Vicente has described as Kuri’s ‘irrefutable and inexorable logic’.