FD13 residency for the arts presents:
Adriana Lara. The Club of Interesting Theories.
Thursday, 18 May 2017, 6.45 pm
Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington D.C.
2829 16th St NW
20009 Washington, D.C.
USA
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FD13 residency for the arts will collaborate with the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington D.C. and various venues in New York City from May through October 2017.
For its D.C. debut, FD13 and the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington D.C. invites Adriana Lara to develop and present her ongoing project Club of Interesting Theories, a proposal for the potential visualization of the processes of theory-making and thought-production, this time with a focus on Mexican-U.S. American relations. An accompanying publication will include the theories paired with the artist’s abstract graphics that materialize the theories into abstract shapes. At the public event, a series of projected graphics from Lara’s visual system will be in dialogue with readings of a few selected interesting theories along with a site-specific installation that will unfold as the evening advances.
Adriana Lara examines the instability of meaning, the structures and patterns, in which content and form merge, reflect on each other, and dissolve. Through this line of exploration Lara’s practice takes on many different formats and shapes as she experiments with different contexts with an open-ended, non-academic approach. Under the collective Perros Negros, she continues to curate exhibitions; she also been editing the fanzine Pazmaker since 2006.
Lara’s work has been shown at Kunstverein Braunschweig (2016), Air de Paris (2016), 21er Haus-Belvedere/Vienna (2014), Kunsthalle Basel (2012), Utah Museum of Fine Arts/Salt Lake City (2010) amongst many others. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions at the Sculpture Center New York (2016), Kunsthalle DenFrie/Copenhagen (2015), the Marrakech Biennale 5 (2014), dOCUMENTA (13) (2012), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts/San Francisco (2012), the New Museum/New York (2009), and the Jumex Collection in Mexico City (2008), and most recently at the Sculpture Center NYC (2016) and Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden (2017).
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In times of political uncertainty FD13 suspends and expands its mission to promote an international network of artistic exchange in Minneapolis/St. Paul and, instead, will operate from the heart of the U.S. government with three invited Mexican artists who will develop context-specific projects for and in collaboration with the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington D.C.
Following Adriana Lara, Chantal Peñalosa (September 2017) and Lorena Mal (October 2017) will develop and present work in Washington D.C. and in New York City.
A special thank you to Gustavo Morales and Alberto Fierro Garza.
With the support of the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington D.C., the Embassy of Mexico in the United States, and the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation.
