“Gabriel de la Mora: Sound Inscriptions on Fabric” is on view Wed-Sun 12-6pm | Thur 12-8pm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "De la Mora’s methodology of selection, documentation, dismantling, and reduction yields fragile rectangles of speaker fabric. These then get trimmed and framed. Each one contains a soiled, ghostly imprint that marks the speaker grill’s absence, the soot tracing out operas and ballads and talk shows that were broadcast through the capital’s thin, polluted air. The shape and size of the markings allude to the design epoch that produced each radio. They comprise brown, amber, tan, and blackish dirt cumulations—part ruin porn, part afterimage, shaped equally by throwaway consumer histories and by the artist’s abstracting hand. Fifty-five such enclosures comprise De la Mora’s solo exhibition at The Drawing Center, Sound Inscriptions on Fabric. They’re not portraits of sounds, nor of sounding-objects. Instead, these dust drawings constitute a suite of second skins, as if t...