Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
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Silence Awareness Existence program / MARCH <strong>2023</strong><br />
José Andrés Mora<br />
Canada<br />
www.joseamora.com<br />
About<br />
José Andrés Mora (he/him) is a Venezuelan-born artist living<br />
in Canada. Mora graduated from the Nova Scotia College of<br />
Arts and Design (2013, BFA in Interdisciplinary Arts) and the<br />
University of Guelph (<strong>2020</strong>, MFA in Studio Arts).<br />
Mora’s work elicits a sense of disconnect deeply tied to<br />
his experience as a member of the Venezuelan diaspora.<br />
Mora excises written narrative fragments from personal<br />
experience, grafting the textual content to digital and<br />
physical surfaces and disconnecting the fragment's narrative<br />
voice from context. He describes this untethered state of<br />
his written language as one analogous to his relationship to<br />
home and culture.<br />
Trying everything<br />
On purpose, I started as many ideas as possible, hoping not<br />
to finish any of them during the residency. I wanted to return<br />
home with many incomplete things, like leaving with many<br />
seedlings, hoping I could plant them once I returned home.<br />
It’s hard to describe the process as anything else other than<br />
playing and indulging my own curiosity.<br />
I bonded with so many people in this residency and I left<br />
feeling transformed.<br />
Mora has exhibited across Canada since 2013 in notable<br />
galleries and public programs such as Nuit Blanche (2014),<br />
Birch Contemporary (2019), Trinity Square Video (<strong>2020</strong>),<br />
Dalhousie Art Gallery (<strong>2020</strong>), Artspace Peterborough (2022),<br />
Art Metropole (2022), the Digital Arts Resource Centre (2022),<br />
and The Plumb Gallery (2022).<br />
Currently, Mora is presenting a solo exhibition show at Maison<br />
de la Culture (Montréal, <strong>2023</strong>). Future projects include a solo<br />
show at Hamilton Artists Inc. (Hamilton, 2025), and group<br />
projects at TAP Arspace (Montréal, <strong>2023</strong>) and Latcham Arts<br />
Centre (Toronto, <strong>2023</strong>).