Gabriel Sierra: Before Present

Colombian artist Gabriel Sierra experiments with our perception of present, space, and time, inviting visitors to live through a déjà vu experience.

"I'm interested in how space and time collide. When it happens, a small event or situation occurs in this world we know." Gabriel Sierra (b. 1975 in San Juan Nepomuceno, Colombia; lives and works in Bogotá), engages with the language of objects used and spaces occupied by people. Man-made, these rooms and things have become charged with the notions, fears, and convictions that govern our lives. On the basis of design and architecture, Sierra develops sculptures, spatial interventions, performances, and texts, always investigating the behavior of man in relation to his environment. Occupying the entire first floor of Kunsthalle Zürich, the show is dedicated to that moment in which a visitor steps into an exhibition space and sees the show for the first time. Before Present looks at the déjà vu, that surprising and eerie moment in which past and present seem perfectly aligned.