Joseph Josué Mora
Joseph Josué Mora, a multidisciplinary artist and gallery worker with a politicized identity, addressing immigration, labor, and social disenfranchisement in his work. He identifies parallels between the bureaucratic systems and spaces he inhabits, exploring surveillance, erasure, and unseen labor. Mora documents the mundane routines of art preparators through labor, material research, and archiving.
By isolating gestures from his art-making process, like peeling tape off a painted wall or pressing joint compound into drywall, he fossilizes the invisible labor of preparators. These actions connect Mora to the hidden systems and labor of undocumented immigrants sustaining many US industries. Both groups, he observes, work unrecognized in the shadow of major institutions.
Thoughts on the lab
My time at Latitude gave me the space to conceptualize my Install Fragment Archive could become. Alongside experimenting with the overhead scanner and learning a photo transfer technique for non-porous materials in my sculpture practice, I met with an archivist, artists, and a curator whose insights supported me through this process of conceptualizing my work.