{"id":1955,"date":"2025-10-03T18:13:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T18:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/gaberwp\/?page_id=1955"},"modified":"2025-11-06T17:39:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:39:28","slug":"eres-quien-practicas-ser","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/williamgaber.com\/en\/eres-quien-practicas-ser\/","title":{"rendered":"You are who you practice being"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You are who you practice being<\/h3>

This exhibition emerges from a profound reflection on personal and collective transformation.\nThe title, taken from an artificial intelligence response about the most brutal truths of psychology \u2014 \u201cYou are not who you think you are; you are who you practice being\u201d \u2014 synthesizes the central axis of this project that William Gaber has developed over the past two years.\n\nThe exhibition began to take shape in 2024, during an artist residency in Onomichi, Japan, in collaboration with a program focused on restoring abandoned houses. From this experience, Gaber delves into the study of architectural abandonment as a metaphor for change, migration, and identity transformation.\n\nThis phenomenon, also present in his home state of Yucat\u00e1n, raises questions about who we were, who we are, and who we may become. His work explores resilience, metamorphosis, and the possibility of conscious change.\n\nSometimes transformation is inevitable \u2014 due to the passage of time or life events \u2014 but other times, we choose to change: to move, to reinvent ourselves, to \u201cshed our skin.\u201d\n\nWhere does that transformation occur? What spaces \u2014 physical or symbolic \u2014 do we inhabit as we become another version of ourselves?\n\nArchitecture, understood as living memory and emotional container, is a key element in this exhibition. Through basalt stone sculptures, modular structures that evoke lattices or building blocks, and a series of paintings produced during the residency, Gaber constructs a visual language that articulates body, space, and time as stages of change.\n\nYou Are Who You Practice Being is an invitation to reflect on the spaces we leave behind, the forms we adopt as we move, and the new containers we inhabit to reinvent ourselves.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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