Gabriel Sosa

During the pandemic, Sosa took walks around his neighborhood in Boston with graphite and paper in hand, developing upon a series he began last year while an artist-in-residence at Lugar a dudas in Cali, Colombia. Surveying his surroundings for municipal and public signage, Sosa rubbed the graphite over letters and words he came across, drawing attention to them on his own paper or creating new words altogether. Later, Sosa turned his attention to the police protests taking place in his neighborhood, and studied Rorschach inkblot tests and the Boston Police Manual for his drawings. Through these two bodies of work, Sosa points to a reevaluation of public space, and of the at once directive and interpretable systems holding it together.