Gala Porras-Kim (1984, Bogotá) lives and works in Los Angeles and London. Her work is about the social and political contexts that influence how history has been framed through the fields of linguistics, history and conservation. The work considers the way institutions shape inherited codes and forms and conversely, how objects can shape the contexts in which they are placed. Porras-Kim has had solo exhibitions at the MCA, Denver; Leeum and MMCA Seoul; MUAC, Mexico City; Gasworks, London, Amant Foundation, Brooklyn, and Kadist, and the MOCA, Los Angeles among others. Her work has been included in the Liverpool Biennial (2023) Whitney Biennial and Ural Industrial Biennial (2019), and Gwangju and Sao Paulo Biennales (2021).