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Presented in conjunction with the Mixpantli: Contemporary Echoes exhibition, In Conversation: Contemporary Mapmakers surveys works of contemporary artists, Sandy Rodriguez and Mariana Castillo Deball, who take inspiration from the Indigenous cartographic traditions of the Americas, challenging existing narratives about place-making and belonging in both Mexico and Los Angeles. Moderated by Dr. Diana Magaloni the Deputy Director, Program Director and the Dr. Virginia Fields Curator of the Art of the Ancient Americas as well as the Suzanne D. Booth and David G. Booth Conservation Center Director at LACMA.
Sandy Rodriguez is a Los Angeles-based artist and researcher. Her work investigates the methods and materials of painting across cultures and histories. Her Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón is made up of a collection of maps and paintings about the intersections of history, social memory, contemporary politics, and cultural production.
Mariana Castillo Deball takes a kaleidoscopic approach to her practice, mediating between science, archaeology, and the visual arts and exploring the way in which these disciplines describe the world. Her installations, performances, sculptures, and editorial projects arise from the recombination of different languages that seek to understand the role objects play in our identity and history.
This program was originally presented on Zoom on March 30, 2022.
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Mixpantli: Space, Time, and the Indigenous Origins of Mexico and Mixpantli: Contemporary Echoes are co-curated by Dr. Diana Magaloni the Deputy Director, Program Director and the Dr. Virginia Fields Curator of the Art of the Ancient Americas as well as the Suzanne D. Booth and David G. Booth Conservation Center Director at LACMA; and Alyce de Carteret, the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Art of the Ancient Americas Department at LACMA.
Both exhibitions were themselves conceived to rethink the traditional narrative of “conquest,” creating an opportunity on the 500th anniversary of the fall of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan to center instead the creative resistance of Indigenous artists.
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Presented in conjunction with the Mixpantli: Contemporary Echoes exhibition, In Conversation: Contemporary Mapmakers surveys works of contemporary artists, Sandy Rodriguez and Mariana Castillo Deball, who take inspiration from the Indigenous cartographic traditions of the Americas, challenging existing narratives about place-making and belonging in both Mexico and Los Angeles. Moderated by Dr. Diana Magaloni the Deputy Director, Program Director and the Dr. Virginia Fields Curator of the Art of the Ancient Americas as well as the Suzanne D. Booth and David G. Booth Conservation Center Director at LACMA.
Sandy Rodriguez is a Los Angeles-based artist and researcher. Her work investigates the methods and materials of painting across cultures and histories. Her Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón is made up of a collection of maps and paintings about the intersections of history, social memory, contemporary politics, and cultural production.
Mariana Castillo Deball takes a kaleidoscopic approach to her practice, mediating between science, archaeology, and the visual arts and exploring the way in which these disciplines describe the world. Her installations, performances, sculptures, and editorial projects arise from the recombination of different languages that seek to understand the role objects play in our identity and history.
This program was originally presented on Zoom on March 30, 2022.
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Mixpantli: Space, Time, and the Indigenous Origins of Mexico and Mixpantli: Contemporary Echoes are co-curated by Dr. Diana Magaloni the Deputy Director, Program Director and the Dr. Virginia Fields Curator of the Art of the Ancient Americas as well as the Suzanne D. Booth and David G. Booth Conservation Center Director at LACMA; and Alyce de Carteret, the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Art of the Ancient Americas Department at LACMA.
Both exhibitions were themselves conceived to rethink the traditional narrative of “conquest,” creating an opportunity on the 500th anniversary of the fall of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan to center instead the creative resistance of Indigenous artists.
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About LACMA
Located on the Pacific Rim, LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection of nearly 140,000 objects that illuminate 6,000 years of artistic expression across the globe. Committed to showcasing a multitude of art histories, LACMA exhibits and interprets works of art from new and unexpected points of view that are informed by the region’s rich cultural heritage and diverse population. LACMA’s spirit of experimentation is reflected in its work with artists, technologists, and thought leaders as well as in its regional, national, and global partnerships to share collections and programs, create pioneering initiatives, and engage new audiences.
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