We are super happy about our current residents at LALA, interdisciplinary artists Itziar Barrio and Sarah Anderson!
On Sunday, June 22nd we will have the pleasure of learning more about their work and practices. Sarah Anderson will give us a short presentation of her recent sculpture and mixed-media work.
Later we will watch Itziar Barrio’s film A Demon that Slips into Your Telescopes while You’re Dead Tired and Blocks the Light (4K, 54 min, 2020).
The film shifts between interviews with scientists, aerial footage from NASA’s archive, and dramatized speculative fiction illuminating how those working in science and technology shape common understandings of “objective” information. The film explores the importance of the indeterminate and non-visible, via gaps and fissures in the construction of scientific knowledge.
Doors: 20:00, we start at 20:30.
The event will be held in English
More info on the artists:
Sarah Anderson
www.sarahanderson.org
Sarah’s practice engages a broad interdisciplinary investigation integrating various media and research areas while remaining focused on sculpture as a specific field of inquiry. Her questions are negotiated through queerness as a mode of generative translation- a method of appropriating systems like Minimalism and abstraction to tell stories about being a body that desires, destroys, and is damaged. Sarah Anderson is a Brooklyn-based artist. She holds a BFA in Glass from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. She has attended residencies internationally, including Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Maine), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace (New York), The Arctic Circle Residency (Norway), La Escuelita (Nicaragua), and CanSerrat (Barcelona). Anderson’s work has been awarded by institutions such as A.I.R., KinoSaito Arts Center and Mana Contemporary. Her work has been exhibited at La MaMa Galleria, Abrons Arts Center, The Wallach Gallery at Columbia University, Signs & Symbols, NURTUREart, Helena Anrather Gallery and Vox Populi among others.
Itziar Barrio
www.itziarbarrio.com
Itziar Barrio is an interdisciplinary artist producing long-term research-based projects that involve different agents and collaborators. By rewriting the dominant narratives through which our societies, identities, and realities are constructed, her work opens up new futures. Her survey exhibition was curated by Johanna Burton in 2018, and her monograph was published by SKIRA in 2023. Barrio has recently been awarded a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship and 2024 NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellow. Barrio’s work has been presented internationally at the 14th Shanghai Biennale, Salt Istanbul, Onassis ONX, e-flux, MACRO, MACBA, Museo del Banco de la República, tranzit Romania, and Havana Biennial. She has been a New Museum’s NEW INC (Art and technology incubator) member since 2020 and has received awards from Brooklyn Arts Council, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Spanish Academy in Rome among others. Barrio’s work has been written about in the Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, ARTFORUM, Art in America, The New York Times, ART PAPERS and other publications. She has lectured internationally and most recently at Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program and Harvard University. She teaches at the School of Visual Arts and Sarah Lawrence College in NY.