b. Mexico 1972

In his pristine sculptures, photographs, videos, and installations, Gonzalo Lebrija freezes time, seeking to capture fleeting moments and display them, like butterflies in a box, for our contemplation. With an approach to life and art combining humor, anxiety, and melancholy, he focuses on the passing of time, preserving, with irony and futility, the unquantifiable yet finite moments between life and death. Many of his works center upon a paused action. Lebrija attempts the impossible—as he stills time it continues to slip away.

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