Here It’s Also Like This

with Gabriel Boils

Saturday, March 22 at 2pm - Bread & Salt

In this community-facing panel, Tijuana based artist Gabriel Boils will share the community based project that led to the publication of Here It’s Also Like This, a photography book that is the result of a research focused on photography in the Mexican state of Baja California in the 21st century. The discussion encourages participation between it´s editor and three panelists (artists represented in the book) about the editing process and the representation of a specific region in contemporary photography. Its main focus as a conceptual project is to bring together a group of images of places, characters and situations that have usually remained in the background of photographic representation from this region. 

This volume unfolds a visual narrative in which the photographs of 37 photographers from different generations and backgrounds are presented in a sequence where each image retains its autonomy, while remaining in dialogue to the others.

About Gabriel Boils

Gabriel Boils studied Visual Arts at the National University of Mexico, UNAM.  He coordinated the Landscape Biennale in Mexico in it´s three editions, and participated as instructor in the contemporary photography program PFC. Gabriel was also instructor of the contemporary art program of the ISC, Sonora.

Using strategies of collection, classification, erasure and appropriation, his work combines scientific methodologies with recognizable cultural forms and models, to address the environmental fragmentation and unsustainability of the globalized post-industrial society in which we live.

He was awarded the San Diego Art Prize in 2024, Acquisition prize in the XII Northwestern Biennale and has been a fellow of the PECDA program 2008 and 2015. He has shown his work individually and collectively, and his work is part of public and private art collections. He lives and works in Tijuana, Mexico.

Discover his work on Instagram @gabrielboils1