联欢晚会Porras-Kim: Between Lapses of Histories

2024年1月27日- 3月22日

联欢晚会Porras-Kim’s work is based on research into archaeological objects, 制度的历史, 博物馆伦理, 收集实践. Her work often takes the form of meticulous drawings of ancient objects in various states of disrepair, relocated from the site of excavation to museum exhibition halls and storage facilities. 的 exhibition will focus on an evolving body of work based on artifacts extracted from Chichén Itzá, an important archeological site of the Classic and Post-classic Maya in the Mexican state of Yucatán. 自20世纪以来, 考古学家已经把, 常以可疑的方式, thousands of objects from this site, objects which have then found their way into museum 收集ions across the world. 的 series of works by Porras-Kim featured in this exhibition references the work of antiquarian Edward Herbert Thompson, who extracted objects from the “Sacred Cenote” at Chichén in the first decade of the twentieth century using a dredge and divers. 祭祀场所, the well contained many ceremonial objects sent there as tribute to the Rain God. Many of the objects represented in her drawings were recovered through techniques that irreparably damaged the artifacts and obliterated contextual information. While Porras-Kim’s work exposes this complicated history, her primary focus is on the relationships between objects and artifacts 和 institutions that care for, 收集, 然后展示出来. 

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联欢晚会Porras-Kim (b. 1984, Bogotá; lives and works in Los Angeles) received an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of California, 洛杉矶(2012), an MFA from California Institute of the 艺术 (2009), and BA from University of California, 洛杉矶(2007). Solo exhibitions have been held at Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul (forthcoming); REDCAT, Los Angeles (2023); Fowler Museum, Los Angeles (2023); Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla (2023); Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (2023); Gasworks, 伦敦 (2022); Amant, Brooklyn (2022); and Museum of Contemporary Art, 洛杉矶(2019). Selected group exhibitions have been held at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2023); Liverpool Biennial (2023); 34th Bienal de São Paulo (2021); 13th Gwangju Biennale (2021); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2021, 2017); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2021, 2019); Hammer Museum, 洛杉矶(2019), 2016); PinchukArtCentre, Kiev (2019); Whitney Museum of American Art, 2019年纽约, 2017); Para Site, Hong Kong (2019); and Seoul Museum of Art (2017). Porras-Kim is a recipient of an Art Matters Foundation Grant (2019), Artadia Los Angeles Award (2017), Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant (2016), Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2015), Creative Capital Grant for Visual Artists (2015), and California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2013). She has participated in residencies at Getty 研究 Institute (2021-22); Delfina Foundation, 伦敦 (2021); Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 哈佛大学, Cambridge (2020); La Tallera, 四面八方Siqueiros, Cuernavaca (2019); Fundación Casa Wabi, Oaxaca (2016); Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2013).

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联欢晚会Porras-Kim: Between Lapses of Histories is organized by Professor of Media Studies Jesse Lerner and Ciara Ennis, Director of the de Saisset Museum, 圣克拉拉大学. Jesse Lerner is a documentary film and video maker. His short films and documentaries have won prizes at film festivals in the United States, 拉丁美洲和日本, and have shown at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Sydney Biennale 和 Sundance Film Festival. Formerly Director and Curator of Pitzer学院美术馆, Ciara Ennis received a PhD in Cultural Studies and Museum Studies from Claremont Graduate University and an MA in Visual 艺术 Administration, 策划, and Commissioning Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, 伦敦.

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Murray Pepper and Vicki Reynolds Pepper Distinguished 访问ing Artist & 学者的讲座
联欢晚会Porras-Kim: 的 Weight of a Patina of Time

在她的讲座中，题目是 的 Weight of a Patina of Time, 联欢晚会Porras-Kim will present her ongoing research on archaeological objects, 制度的历史, 博物馆伦理, 收集实践. Porras-Kim’s research-based practice explores the relationships between objects and artifacts 和 institutions that care for, 收集并展示它们.

的 2023胡椒讲座 与 联欢晚会Porras-Kim 是由 Pitzer学院美术馆 和 Munroe Center for Social Inquiry (MCSI) and is the culminating lecture of the Fall 2023 MCSI Lecture Series: Apologies, Reparations, and Restitution.

Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 4:15 pm
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