Porreres, Mallorca, 1992
Lives and works in Glasgow
Gori Mora lives and works in Glasgow. Graduate in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona (2011-2015). He moved to Glasgow in 2017 to study the Master of Letters in Fine Art Practice at the Glasgow School of Art. After completing the master's programme, he was awarded the John Kinross Scholarship by the Royal Scottish Academy of Edinburgh, to spend a period of research in Florence.
His work explores the history of the queer community, a journey within eroticism, trends of the moment, roles, and a reflection of the contemporary moment in which we find ourselves; a moment, where contact between people is made through social networks. He works with the topic of desire, understood as one of the main engines of social communication, and accentuated with new technologies. He explores how bodies are built and how we, as bodies, become objects of observation. Essentially, Mora makes a visual study of how the perception of reality in front of a representation of a body becomes indeterminate because of all the information we receive through media and context, and how this dictates the way in which we define ourselves.
To represent the virtual space, Mora uses oil on methacrylate, painting on the back and then inverting the acrylic sheet. The use of oil paint highlights the contrast between contemporary technological interactions and traditional media, alluding to the role of classical portraiture. This unconventional approach creates a situation where the viewer is faced with the back of the painting, evoking the aesthetics of an exhibition screen and generating a feeling of inaccessibility and distance from the world represented.
He has exhibited his works at Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani, Palma (2024), Unit London, London (2024); Galeri?a Pelaires, Palma (2022 and 2023), Tuesday to Friday, Valencia (Spain, 2022); The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (2021); at BEERS London Gallery, London (2021); V2React, Miami (2020); AIR Gallery, Manchester (2020); TRAMWAY, Glasgow (2019); AN Contemporary Art Festival, Mallorca (2016 and 2019); Casa de Cultura Felanitx, (Mallorca, 2019); Museum and Art Collection, Porreres (Mallorca, 2017); Konvent Punt Zero, Cultural Center of Art, Barcelona (2016); MUTUO, Cultural Center of Art Barcelona (2015). His project My Florence Souvenir is part of the collection of the Royal Scottish Academy of Edinburgh.