Artist Talk

James Cohan will host an exhibition walkthrough of Claudia Alarcón & Silät and talk with curator Andrei Fernández on Friday, April 11, at 5 PM, followed by an opening reception from 6-8 PM. This event is presented in conjunction with Claudia Alarcón & Silät, a new exhibition curated by Andrei Fernández, on view from April 11 through May 10, 2025, at the gallery’s 52 Walker Street location.

Claudia Alarcón (b. 1989, La Puntana, Salta, Argentina) and Silät (Argentina, collective formed 2023) will be the subject of a solo exhibition at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK and will feature in the upcoming group exhibition Arts of the Earth, curated by Manuel Ciraqui at the Guggenheim Museum of Art in Bilbao as well as in the 14th Mercosur Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Alarcón and Silät’s work was featured in Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere at the Venice Biennale (2024); La vida que explota, MALBA–Puertos, Buenos Aires (2024); Spin a Yarn, Guild Hall, NY (2024) and Another Space, NY (2023); and Cantando Bajito: Chorus, Ford Foundation, NY (2024), among others. In December 2022, Alarcón became the first indigenous woman to be awarded a National Salon of Visual Arts prize by the Ministry of Culture in Argentina. Alarcón was also awarded the Ama Amoedo Acquisition Prize at Pinta Miami in 2022. Works by Alarcón and Silät are in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; MALBA Collection, Buenos Aires; Museu de arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP); Minneapolis Institute of Art; and Nasher Museum of Art, Dunham, NC, among others.

Andrei Fernández (b. 1983, Cutral-Có, Argentina) is a curator, independent researcher, and intercultural agent. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts (UNT) and completed postgraduate studies in Social and Political Anthropology (FLACSO).  She works in, and from, northern Argentina on projects that range between ethnographic literature, social economy, and contemporary art, in cooperation with artists, activists, and researchers. She has curated several visual arts exhibitions in museums, galleries and self-managed spaces in Argentina, Germany, Spain, Paraguay, Portugal and the UK. She curated the project ‘La escucha y los vientos’ presented at ifa-Galerie in Berlin (2020), at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Salta and at the Museo del Barro/Fundación Migliorisi in Asunción (2021). She was curator of the 110th Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales at the Palais de Glace, organised by the Argentinean Ministry of Culture (2022). She did a curatorial residency at the Delfina Foundation, London, with a grant from the Bridges Programme of the Argentine Embassy in the UK and the Anglo-Argentine Society (2023). She is part of the Unión Textiles Semillas: weavers, artists and activists of northwest Argentina, from which she works with the 99 Questions Programme of the Humboldt Forum under the direction of Michael Dieminger. She accompanies the weavers' collective of the Wichí Silät people in their work with the Cecilia Brunson Projects gallery and in community cultural projects in the north of Salta. She is part of FACT, Fundación para el Arte Contemporáneo de Tucumán.

This event is free and open to the public.

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