Delmar will speak about the way in which she navigates art making by combining a research-based practice with her personal experiences and encounters. She will discuss notions of property, ownership, belonging, safety, security, and privacy, as well as visible and invisible labor that have been informing her recent works.

Débora Delmar (b. 1986, Mexico City, Mexico) investigates the circulation and interrelation of objects, images, and people within the realms of globalization. Analyzing capitalism’s societal consequences such as cultural hegemony, social class issues, and gentrification. Recent works explore physical and symbolic barriers related to property, global trade, and immigration. Her installations often draw from the minimalist aesthetics utilized in non-places (a term coined by French anthropologist Marc Augué) to contribute to their omnipresent surveillance. Stemming from her interest in the verbal and contractual agreements inherent to the production of exhibitions, Delmar creates detailed briefs that serve simultaneously as descriptive documents and instructions for her works. The instructions provided range from architectural interventions to the manufacturing of works utilizing local production methods. She also creates works through the purchasing, renting, exchanging, transporting, collecting, and loaning of objects and materials. Delmar is currently a Stanley Picker Gallery Fellow at Kingston University in London, UK where she will hold an exhibition in 2025.

The lecture will be held in English.