Pedro Gómez-Egaña

Pedro Gómez-Egaña’s sculptures and installations settle into the spaces where the borders that separate disciplines — mechanical science, music, psychology, history — are at their most opaque. With durational works in a variety of formats, Gómez-Egaña exhibits what at first glance appear to be self-contained, harmoniously functioning machines.

However, in exposing the apparatuses that allow these systems to operate, Gómez-Egaña reveals the flaws in the machinery and the unsustainable trajectories they are generating that are driving the larger systems towards collapse. The dramatic arcs and inevitable denouements of Gómez-Egaña’s works illuminate the vulnerabilities that lurk in the shadows of human enterprise, and the elusive forces that rein in even the most ambitious pursuits of power.