Moris

Moris (b. 1978, Mexico) lives and works in Mexico. Moris' work is concerned with representation, social and subjective agency, urban issues, and marginal cultures that are often taken for granted in mainstream society. Moris grew up and continues to live and work in a cartel-controlled area outside of Mexico City. Informed by constant fieldwork, the issues Moris explores have been an integral part of his daily life since childhood and have shaped him both personally and professionally. The street and social space in general are his laboratory for investigating issues, collecting data, analyzing visual cultures and vernacular aesthetics. Observing, integrating and learning the diverse social codes of the urban underclass and underworld, their spoken dialects and semiotics, their strategies for survival, and the informal use of aesthetics in their environment to make daily life more humane and dignified are the driving ethos of his work.

Moris' work is included in many important public and private collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles; La Colección Jumex, Mexico City; and the FEMSA Collection, Monterrey, Mexico. Major exhibitions include "Mi casa es tu casa", Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), MOCA Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA.; "Un animal pierde la vida porque otro tiene hambre" (An animal dies because another is hungry), Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico and participated in the 9th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba and the 30th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil.