Born in Bogotá, Colombia
Lives and works in Paris, France
Graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris, he recently participated in the exhibition “Tout doit disparaître” at the Palais de Tokyo and in the 73rd edition of Jeune Création (2023). He mainly presented his work at the
Parliament Gallery, at Béton Salon, at the Regard Neuf3 Festival, at In Plano, at Atelier Rhème, at the Anna Leonowens Gallery, (Nova Scotia), and at the Museum of Modern Art of the Universidad Nacional, (Bogotá).
Laureaute of the sculpture project open call at Fontainebleau (2022),
of the Apes-Sequens open call in Montreuil (2021), and finalist of the “Camus Project” launched by the Ministry of Culture (2020). He is part of Turbo Collectif in Pantin.
The work of Elías Gama considers the pictographic origin of writing, constitutes a tenacious intervention in the structures of meaning and casts a doubt on the limits of humain sign systems and their rights in this period of rapid and radical change. By spatializing various shapes, whether geometric, alphabetical or organic, his practice (painting, places and videos) seeks to reconcile the space of information with that of phenomena.
In 2013 he met the french artist Côme Mosta-Heirt, whose work and teaching will provide him a lasting encouragement.
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