About Residency

Gabriel’s residency, supported by Villa Swagatam and the French Institute in India, unfolded as a quiet attention to the everyday. Rather than drawing from distant or grand inspirations, he immersed himself in the overlooked details of Jaipur - the visual language of manufactured goods, the ornamentation of transport trucks, barricade tapes, bright food packaging, and signage lining the roads. Functional objects, yet carrying a persistent, almost pop presence. From these fragments, a vocabulary emerged. Industrial motifs moved into the weave, where repetition follows the steady pulse of machines and the rhythms of large-scale production. Where industry reaches toward the hand, he turns the gesture around, drawing from its language to shape the crafted object. In doing so, Gabriel bridges his own upbringing with the Indian context, finding across different cultures the same fascination for the visual codes of the everyday. The result is a collection of rugs that reframes the ordinary, where what is seen but rarely noticed begins to surface again.