Foco Gallery is pleased to present Reservoir, a solo show by Gabriel Ribeiro
Opening September 11th – from 6pm

Reservoir explores water as a migrant force moving through – and contained by – bodies, vessels, and systems of conduction. Instead of the substance itself, the exhibition turns to what holds, moves, or fails to carry it. Glass bottles appear plump or collapsed, like bladders in states of inflation and depletion. Gelatine sculptures desiccate within an industrial dehydrator, their surface cohesion slowly unraveling into a denser smallness; thin metal sheets warp into new topographies under heat, echoing the grape’s passage into raisin. In the exhibition, materials are constantly shaped by flows that pass through them, and by the temperatures, stresses, and pressures that exceed them.

Alongside these material events, photograms register objects as if on a laboratory table, but what is captured are not fixed samples so much as gestures of assimilation—impressions of bodies and objects becoming kin. The lexicon that emerges—bloated, hollowed, shriveled, oxidized—evokes the ongoing vulnerability of flesh and matter alike, both sustained and undone by the forces that move between them. In this sense, Reservoir asks us to recognize our physiology as continuous with the infrastructures and objects we devise to sustain it: organs outside of us, still tethered by the impossibility of complete watertightness.