Voices of kurimanzutto

Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, a dynamic fashion designer and artist, boldly challenges Mexican gender norms through her innovative work in performance and sculpture. In this conversation, she discusses her unique blend of fashion and art while reflecting on how her creations evolve with viewer interaction. She shares insights on confronting machismo, the emotional power of her exhibitions, and the playful humor found in everyday objects. Together with Rirkrit Tiravanija, they explore how art transforms spaces and the significance of wearability versus display in contemporary practice.

A conversation about how the artists first met, as student and teacher, and other contemporary subjects linked to their work.Our guest, Joan Jonas, is a world-renowned artist from New York whose work encompasses a wide range of media. Her experiments and productions in the late 1960s and early 1970s continue to be crucial to the development of many contemporary art genres, from performance and video to conceptual art and theater. Since 1968, her practice has explored ways of seeing, the rhythms of rituals, and the authority of objects and gestures.Carlos Amorales is interested mainly in language and the impossibility or possibility of communicating through means that are unrecognizable or not codified, like sounds, gestures, and symbols. His practice is based on different forms of translation: instruments that become characters, letters that become shapes, and narratives that unfold as non-verbal actions. FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.

A conversation about identity through abstraction and the exploration of colors and materials and their underlying meanings. Our guest, Julie Mehretu is a world-renowned artist based in New York. Her work is informed by a multitude of sources including politics, literature, and music. Through her abstracted large scale paintings, drawings, and prints, she engages in a dynamic visual articulation of our contemporary experience, social behavior and the psychogeography of space.Abraham Cruzvillegas is an artist who is deeply influenced by his surroundings. Many of his projects are linked by the idea of autoconstrucción: a concept that draws from the ingenious, precarious and collaborative building tactics implemented by the people living in the Colonia Ajusco, his childhood neighborhood in Mexico City.FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.

A conversation about social, political and environmental crises from an art perspective.Our guest, Alfredo Jaar is a Chilean artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. His multidisciplinary artistic practice explores the unequal power relations and sociopolitical divisions that result from globalization.Minerva Cuevas is a Mexican artist whose work stems from analyzing the notions of value, exchange, and property inherent to the capitalist system and its social consequences, as well as the latent possibility for rebellion that exists within everyday life.FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.

FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.