October 28, 2024
Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago
"Staging the Invisible: An Artist Talk with Fabiola Torres-Alzaga"
Through video, film, installation, sculpture, photography, and drawing, Fabiola Torres-Alzaga investigates the spaces of invisibility in the act of seeing, as well as the sociopolitical repercussions and connotations of space. Her work seeks to disarticulate strategies of visual representation that arise in the expanded space of theater and cinema in order to include these veiled spaces onstage: What do we see and what remains outside the frame? Making use of the queer theory and sexual dissidence, the artist fosters inclusive counter-spaces that allow for diverse imagery. For this OPC talk, 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) which is currently on-view at MUAC in Mexico City.
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