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Dále Zine is pleased to present, “Daydreams” an exhibition of small works by artist Gabriel Pozzo. The exhibition is the artist’s first show in Miami, Florida and aims to introduce the artist & his work to the region. In this exhibition, the artist seeks to explore the idea of ambition and the perils of obsession involved in the pursuit of self-realization through painting. Gabriel summons and populates scenes of the everyday with supernatural entities and events to represent the constant presence of these hopes, dreams and aspirations. With the title of the exhibition, the artist references and signals to a passage in Mary Shelley’s seminal novel, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. A work of art that deals with similar issues:

“Inspirited by this wind of promise, my day dreams become more fervent and vivid.”

-- Mary Shelley. Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus
First published anonymously in 1818 by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones (England)

Gabriel Pozzo, an America born artist who grew up in Caracas, Venezuela, depicts autobiographical scenes that explore the threshold and duality of his Venezuelan American identity.

Gabriel (b. 1994, Washington, DC.) borrows from the heritage of Latin America’s ‘magic realism’ & through it the artist paints his lived experiences. The concepts of the foreign and the sublime serve as catalysts through which the work documents the artist’s past in Venezuela, explore his process of migration and speaks about integration into the American life and culture while preserving & nurturing his roots from the Caribbean region.The formal qualities of the work present themselves as paintings that tether between abstraction and figuration.