This exhibition emerges from a deep reflection on personal and collective transformation. The title—taken from an AI-generated response to a question about the harshest truths in psychology, “You are not who you think you are; you are who you practice being”—beautifully encapsulates the core of this project developed by William Gaber over the past two years.

The exhibition was born in 2024 during an artist residency in Onomichi, Japan, in collaboration with a local initiative focused on restoring abandoned houses. From this experience, Gaber began to investigate architectural abandonment as a metaphor for change, migration, and evolving identity. The phenomenon, also visible in his home state of Yucatán, raises essential questions: Who were we? Who are we now? Who can we become?

Gaber’s work explores resilience, metamorphosis, and the possibility of conscious transformation. Sometimes, change happens to us—through time, loss, or rupture—but other times, we choose it: we move, evolve, reinvent ourselves, shed old skins. Where does that transformation take place? What physical or symbolic spaces do we inhabit as we become new versions of ourselves?

Architecture—understood as living memory and emotional container—plays a central role in this exhibition. Through sculptures in recinto stone, modular structures evoking latticework or concrete blocks, and a series of paintings made during the residency, Gaber creates a visual language that connects body, space, and time as sites of transformation.

You Are Who You Practice Being invites us to reflect on the spaces we leave behind, the forms we adopt in motion, and the new containers we inhabit as we reimagine who we are.

September 6th - October 31st, 2025

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