Sayre Gomez on Heaven 'N' Earth

In this new video, Sayre Gomez discusses his solo exhibition, Heaven ‘N’ Earth (12 January 2023—2 March 2024).

“I’ve always been interested in the technicality of it or trying to learn how to do a certain thing. The type of painting I attach myself to is really rooted in trade — rooted in commercialism.”

In Heaven ‘N’ Earth, his second exhibition at Xavier Hufkens, the Los Angeles-based artist Sayre Gomez devotes his attention to the physical and cultural survival techniques of those left behind in the wake of capitalist development, with a sincere commitment to documenting traces of lived experience in the ruins of deindustrialisation.