Oct 5, 2024 - March 2, 2025
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITION - SCIENTIA SEXUALIS
Scientia Sexualis centers research-driven interventions into raced and gendered assumptions that structure scientific disciplines governing our sense of the sexual body. The artists in this exhibition bring attention to the material, conceptual, and psychic forms of the lab and the clinic as aesthetics that operate across scientific and artistic discourses. The exhibition catalogue will feature new writing by leading interdisciplinary scholars who will map key concepts (sex, race, Indigeneity), materials (instruments, specimens, biomatter), and disciplines (psychiatry, anthropology, reproductive medicine) that the artists engage through their work. Together with the catalogue and related programming, Scientia Sexualis aims to examine and reconfigure the relationship between art and science and, in turn, to create an alternative access point to the history of science where sex, gender, and pleasure are concerned.
Featured artists include: Panteha Abareshi, Dotty Attie, Louise Bourgeois, Nao Bustamante, Andrea Carlson, Demian DinéYazhi’, Nicole Eisenman, El Palomar, dean erdmann, Jes Fan, Nicki Green, Oliver Husain & Kerstin Schroedinger, Xandra Ibarra, KING COBRA (documented as Doreen Lynette Garner), Joseph Liatela, Candice Lin, Carlos Motta, Wangechi Mutu, Young Joon Kwak & Gala Porras-Kim, Cauleen Smith, P. Staff, Joey Terrill, Chris E. Vargas, Millie Wilson, and Geo Wyex.
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Sept 21, 2024 - February 2, 2025
Chet Holifield Federal Building, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITION - PURGATORIO
Curated by April Baca, PURGATORIO visualizes the Holifield's architectural and political contradictions and its role in political violence, technological mediation, and communal displacement, particularly along the U.S.-Mexico border. The exhibition takes its title from an unfinished poem by American poet Hart Crane, whose ambivalence and fascination with Mexico and its varied landscapes conceived of exile from a rampant U.S. technological ethos as a type of purgatory. Purgatorio's hybrid presentation will feature intergenerational and regionally dispersed artists whose artworks will be represented in a virtual remodeling of the Chet Holifield Federal Building in Laguna Nigel, CA
Los Angeles-based artist Peter Wu will design the show's online presentation, Purgatorio, which will be staged as both an installation in the larger physical exhibition (Digital Capture) and as its own independent online exhibition hosted through Wu+'s online gallery EPOCH.