your cost-benefit calculations

your cost-benefit calculations, Gabriel Kuri's first solo exhibition at kurimanzutto, New York, presents a new body of work that considers how probability might take material form. The title evokes a phrase that guides countless daily decisions—choices shaped by instinct as much as reason—and the subtle assessments through which risk, chance, and prediction become means for imagining possible futures. Through folded steel forms, soft textiles, volcanic rocks, carved wooden poles or consumer articles, Kuri asks how such abstract operations could manifest concretely, and how materials might speak the language of odds. The exhibition is organized through a chromatic system that echoes the familiar color-coding of risk assessment charts, conventions that are widely used yet ultimately arbitrary: cool greens and blues suggest low risk, while oranges and reds signal heightened stakes. Three large metal sculptures anchor the exhibition, consisting of cool-toned steel planes folded where they lean on volcanic rock or stacked fireworks. The exhibition implies that life unfolds through continuous transactions, wagers, and negotiations: our own ongoing cost-benefit calculations. Here, probability is not a percentage but a sculptural potential, and form becomes the place where chance takes shape.