Monday, October 28, 6PM
Logan Center for the Arts, Penthouse Room 901
"Staging the Invisible: An Artist Talk with Fabiola Torres-Alzaga"
Join us at the Logan Center for the Arts for an artist talk with Mexico City-based interdisciplinary artist Fabiola Torres-Alzaga, hosted by the Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. Torres-Alzaga’s practice is informed by a queer perspective and her works originate from scenic systems such as cinema, theater, and magic—the complex visual hierarchies between the spectator and the narratives constituting the image. Through video, film, installation, sculpture, photography, and drawing, Torres-Alzaga investigates visual geographies in their diverse fields of representation and their repercussions in our socio-spatial relations, with special emphasis on the presence of the invisible. The artist will give a presentation discussing recent solo exhibitions and projects, including a screening of her most recent film, Las Desinvitadas [The Uninvited], (2023).
Fabiola Torres-Alzaga has exhibited at MUAC (Mexico, 2024), Museo MACRO (Roma, 2023), MUAC’s Sala 10 (Mexico, 2021), Bienal FEMSA (Zacatecas, 2018), Anthology Film Archives (New York, 2018), Lille3000 (France, 2019), Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (Buenos Aires, 2018), among others. Her recent film was featured in Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin) and CWB (Paris) as part of Rencontres lnternationales Paris/Berlin, 2024.
Fabiola Torres-Alzaga will be visiting Chicago as part of the 2024-25 Collaboration Cohort of the Lit & Luz Festival, a cultural exchange between writers and visual artists from Mexico and Chicago, taking place in Chicago from October 26-November 2.
Presented in partnership with the Lit & Luz Festival