Accompanying the exhibition Gabriel de la Mora: La Petite Mort this edition includes an in depth reading of the artist’s work by the curator, Tobias Ostrander, accompanied by newly commissioned essays art historian Maria Minera, and the writer and poet Pablo Soler Frost that each reflect on aspects of death, eroticism and transformation in De la Mora’s practice.

Published by RM in collaboration with Museo Jumex and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, this volume illustrates more than 80 works by the artist produced over the last 25 years with numerous details showing the precision and allure of his compositions which employ materials such as human hair, fragments of eggshells, butterfly wings and obsidian among them.