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Food Material: Carmen Argote & Andrea Gyorody
Artist Carmen Argote and curator Andrea Gyorody connected online to discuss Carmen’s newest film and printed works, and the metabolic, reflective process of “digesting the city” through her walking. Carmen has often used food as material in her practice; in this conversation she articulates the unexpected nexus of conditions underlying and informing her current projects, which bring together the mundane and the celestial; waste and language; energy and digestion.
About the Artists
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Andrea Gyorody
Andrea Gyorody is an independent curator, editor, and critic. From 2017-20, she served as the Ellen Johnson ’33 Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, where her exhibition Afterlives of the Black Atlantic (2019-20), co-curated with Matthew Francis Rarey, received a...
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Carmen Argote
Carmen Argote is a Los Angeles-based artist, whose recent solo exhibitions have been held at Visual Arts Center, University of Texas, Austin (2020); New Museum, New York (2019); PAOS, Guadalajara, Mexico (2019); Ballon Rouge Collective, Istanbul, Turkey (2019) and New York (2018); Instituto de Vision, Bogota, Colombia (2018); Panel LA,...
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Event Details
DATE: June 28, 2020
LOCATION: Online