en la co-confluencia de las civilizaciones en las américas

Adrian Aguilera

En residencia: Ene 25 – Mar 27, 2021

Exposición: Mar 25 – May 16, 2021


de la cineasta francesa Marguerite Duras de 1978, en el que Duras filmó una secuencia de calles parisinas desiertas desde la noche hasta el amanecer. En su película, una poética voz en off describe huellas de manos (de 12.000 a 17.000 años) descubiertas en las cuevas magdalenienses de Europa occidental. Con un espíritu similar, el video de Aguilera invita al espectador a viajar durante dos períodos diarios de crepúsculo civil, temprano en la mañana y al final de la tarde, cuando la mayoría de los trabajadores esenciales ya están trabajando y otros trabajadores regresan a casa. En recuerdo del asesinato sin sentido de Breonna Taylor en 2020, se filmó sin título (crepúsculos civiles, 13:03:21) alrededor del Cementerio Nacional de San Antonio y los cementerios de la ciudad en el aniversario de su muerte, el 13 de marzo. Taylor era ella misma una trabajadora esencial que fue asesinada por la policía en su casa mientras dormía.


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Artista

Adrian Aguilera

Austin, Texas, USA / Monterrey, Mexico

A native of Monterrey, México (b. 1981), Adrian Aguilera currently lives and works in Austin, Texas. Working with a variety of mediums that include sculpture, text-based work, print media, video, and installations, Aguilera researches the intrinsic essence that resides in objects. With an interest in scientific observation, cultural history, and social issues, the artist’s work addresses our relationship with the physical and cultural spaces in which we (co)exist. He holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts (2004) from Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Fusebox Festival, Blanton Museum of Art, and George Washington Carver Museum in Austin; as well as the Instituto Cultural de México in Paris, France. Aguilera is also an active member of the Austin-based contemporary arts collaborative platform Black Mountain Project.  

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Curador

Gilbert Vicario

Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Gilbert Vicario is Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and The Selig Family Chief Curator at the Phoenix Art Museum since October 2015. Gilbert has over 20 years of curatorial experience having worked at institutions, such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He oversees a six member curatorial team in the departments of American art, Asian art, Fashion Design, Latin American art, Photography, in addition to his role as curator of modern and contemporary art. Upcoming exhibitions include Stories of Abstraction: Contemporary Latin American Art in the Global Context. His most recent exhibition Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist, includes stops at the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Palm Springs Art Museum in California. In 2006, Vicario was named U.S. Commissioner for the International Biennale of Cairo by the U.S. Department of State for the exhibition Daniel Joseph Martinez: The Fully Enlightened Earth Radiates Disaster Triumphant, and he was a participating curator in the 2007 Lyon Biennial: The History of a Decade That Has Not Yet Been Named. In addition to Phoenix Art Museum publications, Vicario has contributed internationally to numerous exhibition publications commissioned by Musea Brugge, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Heard Museum, Orange County Museum of Art, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea di Milano, as well as with Radius Books, Santa Fe and Hatje Cantz Verlag. Vicario is a graduate of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (MA, 1996) and the University of California, San Diego (BA, 1989).
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