Monday, October 31, 6pm
Logan Center for the Arts, Room 901
Please join us for a presentation of recent and on-going works by 2022 Lit & Luz Festival participant and visual artist, Balam Bartolomé, hosted by the Open Practice Committee.
Accompanied by visiting curator, Esteban King, the two together will discuss the themes and concerns behind Bartolomé’s artistic practice which ranges from sculpture, photography, installation and video to drawing and writing– and explores the relation between culture and matter, the study and analysis of culture, history, and its drift in present time, particularly around the ways in which contemporary cultures relate with their past.
**Free and open to the public.
Presented in partnership with the Lit & Luz Festival
Balam Bartolomé (Ocosingo, Mexico) received a B.A. in Visual Arts from UNAM. He was named a fellow of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Jumex Foundation, the Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo, and the FONCA Young Creators Program. He has exhibited broadly in North and South America, Europe, and Asia and has held artist residencies at Arte ERA (Uruguay), International Studio & Curatorial Program (NY), Nordic Kunstnarsenter (Norway), Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, NE), Casa Wabi (Oaxaca, Mexico), Flora Ars+Natura (Colombia) and Sculpture Space (Utica, NY). His most representative solo shows are Mexímoron at the National Museum of Interventions (Mexico) and Revés at the Carrillo Gil Art Museum (Mexico). Among the group shows, the 1st BIENALSUR (Argentina), the 1st Bristol Biennial (UK) and the 15th Tallinn Triennial (Estonia). He currently directs, along with artist Antonio Monroy, the artistic research project Bienal Tlatelolca in Mexico City.
Esteban King Álvarez (México City, 1986) is a researcher, art historian and curator. His work focuses on modern and contemporary art and its relationships with experimental music and literature. He holds a BA in History and an MA in Art History from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). From 2012 to 2015 he was curator and chief researcher at the Museo Universitario del Chopo, and from 2015 to 2019 curator and editor at ESPAC, Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo. In 2015 he had the FONCA Grant in the category of “Essay”. He has been professor in the BA on Art History at the Universidad Iberoamericana, teaching Pedagogical curatorship and History of exhibitions. In 2020 he was part of the curatorial team of the XIV FEMSA Biennial, Inestimable Chance. He works as a freelance writer, researcher, and curator.