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Mexican artist Jose Dávila’s photographic work and installations reflect on 20th-century art and pay homage to seminal figures in American minimalism and European abstraction including Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt and Josef Albers. Dávila explores how these movements have been interpreted and appropriated over time to open up new discourses.

In his cut-outs, Dávila manually extracts the central image from photographs of iconic artwork and renowned monuments. By introducing these white voids, where negative space becomes the focus, Dávila creates a three-dimensionality akin to his sculptural work and comments on the relationship between subject and context. Viewers can  perform a creative act and fill in the central image from their memory and imagination.

‘Untitled (Interior with Mirror)’ (2019) is from a series that references Roy Lichtenstein's paintings. In these photographs, Dávila deconstructs Lichtenstein's signature portraits, brushstrokes and interiors. He plays with the idea of appropriation, an essential component of Lichtenstein's practice. Inspired by commercial advertising and comic books, Lichtenstein developed his signature technique of using Ben-Day dots in his series of interiors to define the room, delineate the furniture and create the illusion of space. Two works from this series are in the �۶���Ƶ Art Collection.

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