Jose Dávila

Multimedia artist Jose Dávila welcomes contrasts in his works: between movement and stasis, solidity and lightness, and a deference to history and an urge for newness; and allows a natural balance between these opposing forces to emerge in his sculptures and paintings. Dávila’s seemingly precarious stacks of marble, concrete, driftwood, and other, untreated raw materials draw further contrast through the interplay between human and gravitational interventions. The artist’s hand, visible in the imperfect edge of a painted circle or the ratchet straps holding massive rocks together, works with the forces of physics to manifest, among other possibilities, a necessary symbiosis between humans and nature that could prevent the collapse of ecosystems.