Gabriela Ruiz, who is currently the toast of the Los Angeles arts scene, breaks down the mirrored walls of her multimedia maze exhibition at the Palm Springs Art Museum.
, on view now through January 29. “I’ve come to this museum since I was a child,” another staffer says. “I’ve never seen anything like this.”is a deeply layered, life-size maze containing dozens of see-through panels, distorted mirrors, video surveillance, blue sand, found objects, 3D self-portraits, fast-cut micro-montages, spatial audio, and more. It’s a journey through the anxious and thrilling insides of an artist who found comfort as a child in carnivals and haunted houses.
“I would enter these temporary worlds built overnight in empty parking lots and was overcome with the fantasy,” says Ruiz during a walkthrough of her exhibit. “These spaces were scary and disorienting to other kids, but to me, they felt familiar because I could relate to the chaos.” The mirror maze re-imagines an upbringing and identity caught in-between spaces, as if to say, “try and put me in a box and this is the kind of box you’re going to get.” Her mission is not to solve the maze, but to inhabit it—and take up as much real estate as possible.
“A lot of my work talks about finding a home in things,” she says. “I want to champion the voice of myself and others like me while carving out space in worlds where they are seen as outsiders. Coming from an immigrant household, the search for home is something very personal to me.” Ruiz was raised by Mexican émigrés in the San Fernando Valley. She clawed her way into the art world without formal education or training only five years ago, and parlayed set design gigs, as well as jobs in the queer nightlife scene, into a reputation for audacious performance-stunts and hyper-surreal installations. In one piece, she's
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