On the occasion of Felipe Baeza’s solo exhibition To feel a there and then at kurimanzutto Mexico City, the gallery presents a live conversation between the artist and Curator Susana Vargas.
The conversation is the tenth chapter of the FUTURE DIALOGUES series—and the first chapter in the Mexico City gallery—hosted by kurimanzutto with the support of Aeroméxico.
About FUTURE DIALOGUES
Inspired by kurimanzutto’s intergenerational program defined by a rich history of artistic collaborations, FUTURE DIALOGUES focuses on the exchange of knowledge and ideas for the artists and creatives of tomorrow.
The series has featured pioneering artists and authors: Minerva Cuevas with Alfredo Jaar, Abraham Cruzvillegas with Julie Mehretu, Carlos Amorales with Joan Jonas, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane with Rirkrit Tiravanija, Roberto Gil de Montes with Joey Terrill, Daniel Guzmán with Mónica de la Torre, Marta Minujín with Darsie Alexander; and Miguel Calderón with Magalí Arriola.
This series of conversations has been transformed and can now be listened to in a podcast format through Voices of kurimanzutto.
About Felipe Baeza
Felipe Baeza collage, painting, printmaking, and other techniques, Felipe Baeza creates multilayered, textural works exploring notions of the body to distort alternative modes of inhabiting. Baeza’s sensually rich and visually arresting works evoke both mythic dimensions and contemporary themes. He depicts figures within densely layered paintings, portraying them in different states of becoming and at times abstracting them to the point of invisibility. Baeza’s figures are hybrid,“fugitive,” and “unruly,” merging the human and the non-human to create fantastical images that conjure realms of myth, spirit, and imagination.
Baeza works with the conceptualization of what he calls forms that engage in “acts of refusal” —racialized, queered, and otherly-abled persons whose existence transgresses multiple limitations of identity. The figures that emerge in his works—rendered in different states of visibility and cloaked with ancestral symbols and images—are not resolved but rather always in a process of becoming. What they share in common is an unabashed beauty sited beyond aesthetics.
About Susana Vargas
Susana Vargas is a writer, teacher and curator. She is an interdisciplinary scholar, internationally recognized for her artistic and academic work at the intersections of alternative criminology, visual studies, and queer studies, both in North and Latin America. Her work has appeared in Frieze, I-D, Vice, El País, and CBS Inside Edition, among others.
Vargas is the author of The Little Old Lady Killer: The Sensationalized Crimes of Mexico's First Female Serial Killer published by NYU Press and Mujercitos, published by RM. She has co-curated exhibitions at Tate Britain, Museo Jumex and the Ford Foundation Gallery. After a Fulbright residency at Columbia University, she joined Carleton University as a professor in Media and Communication Studies.
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saturday, july 12, 12 pm
free admission
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