Gabriel Gutierrez

Education

2009 – 2014                Bachelor of Fine Arts, Majoring in Photography, OCADU, Toronto

  Exhibitions

  2010                           Nuit Blanche Student Exhibition, XSPACE Gallery, Toronto

2011                           Mentoring Program Exhibition, Calumet Gallery, New York

                                  Art Exhibition: Not a Drop to Drink, Munk School of Global Affairs University, Toronto

  2012                           TEDxOCADU: Simplexity, OCAD University, Toronto

2013                           Augmented Cinema Film Festival, Royal Cinema, Toronto

                                  트라이얼로그/Trialogi/Trialogue, Gallery Emil, Tampere         

                                  트라이얼로그/Trialogi/Trialogue, Gallery Illium, Seoul

2014                           The Figure Show, OCAD University, Toronto

                                  99th Annual OCADU Graduate Exhibition, OCADU, Toronto

                                  224 Days: A Prologue, TAC Art/Work Gallery, Toronto

2015                           INTAC: Revolution, Osaka University of Arts, Japan

“[Hysteria] is a question addressed at the authority that defines my identity… the hysterical position is that of doubt which is an extremely productive position.”

-Slavoj Zizek

Puppy's Hysterical Revelations 2014

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· Full Image

· Preliminary Work

     Bokeh is a short film made out of a series of visual interpretations and translations, that owes its origin to a poem written years before the beginning of this visual project.

     The poem itself is a reflection on the behavior one has when facing a time of personal crisis. It begins with the word doubt which is an almost mechanical reaction one has towards what one fears. Fear, though not being physical, is something very powerful, and it is what invades us when having to take a hard decision; it can also represent a limitation for those who constantly submit to it, not being able to risque anything for the sake of changing their lives for the better. This poem has an implied narrative that recounts the unraveling of these feelings previously mentioned, that with the use of film, sees the delivery of the message facilitated borrowing elements of magic realism and surrealism.

    Bokeh

Doubts were everywhere, doubts in a million forms appear before us in different sizes, shapes and colours; As animals, humans, and invisible creatures. Doubts that flooded the whole level of this building, dark, gooey liquid. Grainy, fetid substance. Slimy and sticky, On our skin, and in our heads. Dying it with questions. Staining the rotten walls that fostered the large layers of growing moss, in an eternal cycle of never-ending uncertainty. Making us question the existence of doubt. Paradoxes that had no solutions or where the only potential answer seemed to be death. Always death. The only solution.

Bokeh 2011

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· Artist Statement

     This proposed online project explores the knowledge, research, and awareness that we have as a society of the human brain, and the effects that this curiosity has had on us. In the "age of the brain" we have witnessed many ground braking discoveries: from Sigmund Feud's discovery of the unconscious, to the development of technologies that allow us to execute physical brain surgery. This project is an analysis of these discoveries, and together with this, it proposes a question whilst positioning the audience in an "awkward position."  Do we understand mental illness in its entirety? Or have we ventured into an unknown territory, that we may find later on resulted harmful to us? They say that once you get an idea in your head, there's no way of ever taking it out. What if these mental illnesses are transmitted just like that, like ideas, and we ourselves are the disease?

      This project takes the same title, and is inspired by a very interesting article that David Eagleman wrote for The Atlantic, that can be found here.

The Brain on Trial 2011

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· Artist Statement

· Webart Project

     Water in its various states, covers seventy percent of the Earth’s surface and is vital for all known forms of life. An adult human’s body is roughly sixty percent water, and a child’s body is seventy percent water. This liquid is made up of thousand of molecules that are born when an oxygen atom unites with two hydrogen atoms, creating like this the foundation for what we know as life.       When seen under a microscope, water particles subjected to vibrations can create unbelievably complex and elegant patterns that can be seen and traced all over the universe, from outer space to the microscopic world. These vibrations originate from the element of sound, and sound as we know, is ubiquitous. Air pressures that are in constant movement create this phenomenon, and much of it cannot be perceived within our hearing range. Planets rotating in a solar system, galaxies constantly moving and rearranging themselves emit a sound we cannot perceive, and that perhaps has an effect on our world, on our bodies, on every water particle?

Agua Project 2011

*A still from this project was featured in the Art Exhibition: Not a Drop to Drink, that took place in the cloisters of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, from 26-30 March 2012.

*Note: Due to technological limitations this is a recording of the video projected on a wall, which means it is of much lower resolution and quality than the original video. To see stills of the video in better quality go to "Details."

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· Artist Statement

· Details