PROXYCO

For CONDUCTOR, PROXYCO Gallery is pleased to present a solo booth by Colombian artist Pablo Gómez Uribe. As part of his ongoing investigation into processes of urban beautification, this body of work examines the early material signs of gentrification through a practice that is both forensic and aesthetic. Gómez Uribe focuses on what he considers a crucial yet often overlooked gesture in the transformation of public space: the removal of graffiti. These erasures are never complete. Tiled surfaces once marked by dissent, identity, or presence retain faint shadows in their grout lines; chemical ghosts of prior inscriptions. In these residual traces, the artist locates a quiet but powerful form of resistance: the city remembers what planners attempt to erase.  Using silkscreen on butter board, Gómez Uribe renders these remnants as images that are not fixed but temporal. The ink is absorbed into the cardboard’s surface with minimal contrast, nearly disappearing at first glance. Yet because the board is not UV-protected, the material oxidizes over time. As the white surface gradually yellows and darkens, the silkscreened image once barely visible slowly emerges. This transformation mirrors the way suppressed urban histories resurface, not through spectacle or confrontation, but through subtle, persistent material memory. The works invite viewers to consider how cities carry the traces of what has been removed, forgotten, or deliberately concealed.

Pablo Gómez Uribe
(b. 1975, Medellín, Colombia)
Pablo Gómez Uribe is a Colombian-born architect and visual artist whose work engages deeply with architectural theory, urbanism, and materiality. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, while maintaining strong ties to Medellín, reflecting a bi- national perspective that informs his artistic practice.

Trained in Architecture, Pablo Gómez Uribe has built an artistic practice that elaborates a counter-narrative of modernism camouflaged in a rationalist seriality and elegant abstract forms. The product of a long process decanted from the idea of ‘anarchitecture’ coined by Gordon Malta Clark, Gómez Uribe employs a form of speculative archeology that draws on urbanism. His work displays elements extracted from the analytical methodology of paper architecture (which had its stellar moment in the seventies) to establish a dialogic relationship with divergent positions of constructivist modernism in contemporary artistic production.

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PROXYCO showcases the work of emerging and mid-career artists from across Latin America.

By organizing exhibitions with represented artists and partnering with galleries both within the region and internationally, we strive to foster a deeper appreciation and broader recognition of artists of Latin American descent within the global art landscape .For PROXYCO, the term “Latin American” is not an essentializing classifier, but rather a fluid framework to value and engage with art that is informed by both a distinct cultural heritage and an ever-widening global perspective. Located in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, PROXYCO was founded by Alexandra Morris (b. Mexico City) and Laura Saenz (b. Bogota).

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