EventsThe New Social Environment#1329

La Capilla Azul

Featuring Dan Cameron, Gianfranco Foschino, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Anelys Wolf, and Rodrigo Rojas

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Curator Dan Cameron and artists Gianfranco Foschino, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Anelys Wolf join poet Rodrigo Rojas for a conversation on Zoom.

Dan Cameron

A photo of Dan Cameron on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
New York-based curator, art writer and educator Dan Cameron launched his career in 1982 with Extended Sensibilities at the New Museum, the first institutional effort in the US to examine gay & lesbian identity in art. For over forty years, Cameron has held senior curatorial positions at the New Museum, Orange County Museum of Art and CAC New Orleans, and organized more than a hundred museum exhibitions, including surveys of Martin Wong, David Wojnarowicz, Faith Ringgold, and others. In 2007, Dan founded Prospect New Orleans, the contemporary art triennial to benefit the city after Hurricane Katrina, and organized the first two editions. More recently, his book on Nicole Eisenman’s paintings was published in 2021 by Lund Humphries.

Karina Aguilera Skvirsky

A photo of Karina Aguilera Skvirsky on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Karina Aguilera Skvirsky is a multidisciplinary artist. In 2019, she received a Creative Capital grant to produce Sacred Geometry and How to Build a Wall and Other Ruins, a project that includes a multi-channel video installation and live performances. Recent exhibitions include her participation in Bienalsur in the Palazzo Borghese, 2025 [Rome, IT]; La Avanzada Acestralista at El Museo de Antropologico y Arte Contemporáneo, 2025 [Guayaquil, EC]; Hors Pistes at Centre Pompidou, 2024 [Málaga, SP]; Jugar con los ojos cerrados: Cien Años de Surrealismo at RGR Gallery, 2024 [Mexico City, MX]; and Re-Collections at the LatinX Project, 2024 [New York, NY]. 

Gianfranco Foschino

A photo of Gianfranco Foschino on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Photo: YAMAMOTO Tadasu courtesy of Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori Public University

Gianfranco Foschino (b. 1983) is a Chilean video artist based in Santiago. Educated in Cinema Studies at UNIACC University (2008), he develops a rigorous practice at the intersection of photography and film, employing a fixed camera to intensify perception and temporal awareness. His work has been presented at the Venice Biennale, Italy; SITE Santa Fe Biennial, United States; and the Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador. Solo exhibitions include Christopher Grimes Gallery, United States, and Museo de Artes Visuales (MAVI), Chile. In May 2025, he presented an exhibition at Capilla Azul, Chile, in collaboration with Estéban Perez.

Anelys Wolf

A photo of Anelys Wolf on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Hector Delgado, Lima 2024

Anelys Wolf was born in Valdivia, Chile, and raised in Ancud, Chiloé, where she lives and works today. She studied painting at the University of Chile, where she received her BA in 1996. Wolf uses figurative painting to translate memory and cinema into present-day representations. She has had individual exhibitions at Galerie Frederic Roulette, Paris (2023),  Judas Galería, Valparaiso (2022), Espacio O, Santiago (2019) and Rats9 Gallery, Montreal (2012). Saving Time, her two-person exhibition with sculptor Sebastian Preece at Capilla Azul, took place from May to September 2024.

Rodrigo Rojas

A photo of Rodrigo Rojas on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Rodrigo Rojas is a Chilean poet, translator, and scholar whose work focuses on multilingual poetics and Indigenous literature. He is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Viaje al jardin de la noche (2024), and the essay book Lengua Escorada: traducción como resistencia en cuatro poetas mapuche (Pehuén Editores, 2009). His research and translations were included by Jerome Rothenberg in the Poems for the Millennium project and later anthologized in The Serpent and the Fire (UCLA, 2024) and Barbaric, Vast and Wild (Black Widow Press, 2015). His poems and translations have appeared in international journals such as Brick (Canada), Almost Island (India) Anamesa, Xavier Review, Frantic Egg (USA), and New Coin (South Africa).

    We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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