AKA Art Productions
14India · Mexico City · 2024–2025

Gabriel de la Mora: mother of pearl, abalone and hair.

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In Udaipur, craftspeople cut mother of pearl and abalone into small tiles and set them one by one on a drawn grid. With Gabriel de la Mora we produced works in both materials there; they were shown at Zona Maco, Mexico City. One of them, 11,393 Ha. Ir. (2025), is made of 11,393 fragments of New Zealand abalone shell (Haliotis iris) on wood.

We also produced his hanging works in human hair, 90 × 60 cm: woven by hand, then washed and brushed on the workshop floor. They were shown at Museo Jumex, Mexico City, in La Petite Mort (September 2025 – February 2026).

Mother of pearl and abalone · Udaipur

A craftsman setting small tiles of mother of pearl along a drawn grid on a large panel
Setting mother of pearl, Udaipur.
Panels of abalone mosaic laid on a grid on the workshop floor
Abalone panels on the grid, Udaipur.
Close-up of a finished surface of hundreds of small abalone tiles in green, blue and silver
The finished abalone surface, close up.
Two square works by Gabriel de la Mora, one in abalone and one in mother of pearl, hanging side by side in a gallery room
The abalone and mother-of-pearl works on view.

Walking past the works, 15 seconds.

Human hair · woven, washed, shown

A woven panel with long loose warp threads being washed with a wooden paddle on a wet stone floor
Washing the woven panel.
Close-up of the edge of a woven panel, fine dark hairs standing out from the pale weave
The edge, close up: hair in the weave.
A dark woven panel above a long fall of pale threads hanging on a white museum wall
At Museo Jumex, La Petite Mort, 2025.
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