EventsThe New Social Environment#790

Darío Escobar: Encrypted Messages

Featuring Escobar and José Falconi, with María Argel and Enrique Aureng Silva

Monday, April 17, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Artist Darío Escobar joins Rail contributor José Falconi for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by María Argel and Enrique Aureng Silva.

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Visit Darío Escobar: Encrypted Messages, on view at Almine Rech through April 22, 2023 →

This event will be available in English and Spanish, through simultaneous translation.

We'd like to thank our friends at Almine Rech Gallery for graciously sponsoring the translation services.

Darío Escobar

A photo of Darío Escobar on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Guatemalan-born sculptor Darío Escobar is a contemporary artist whose work is characterized by the formal and conceptual investigation of objects and their insertion into the field of art history and visual art. His work challenges the viewer to reflect on the space we occupy within the social, political, and economic systems that sustain our existence. Since the late 1990s, Escobar has utilized a wide range of industrial and everyday consumer products, from cereal boxes to car bumpers, to construct an ongoing dialogue on global consumerism. That dialogue, invariably, has also incorporated an extensive conversation with object-making across the ages. Over the last two decades, Escobar’s art has gained a critical place around the world.

José Falconi

A photo of José Falconi on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Assistant Professor of Art and Human Rights at the University of Connecticut, José Falconi received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2010. From 2001 to 2011, he was Art Forum Curator at the David Rockefeller for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, curating more than thirty shows of cutting-edge Latino and Latin American artists in an academic setting. In the United States, he has been appointed Lecturer in the Department of Art History and Architecture at Brandeis University (2014-2020), Boston University in the Spring of 2016 and in the School of the Arts at the University of Connecticut in the Spring of 2021.

The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom, Dao Strom reading.

Dao Strom

A photo of Dao Strom on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.

Dao Strom

A photo of Dao Strom on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.

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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