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A Universal History of Infamy
This exhibition engages 16 U.S. Latino and Latin American artists and collaborative teams working across a range of media鈥攆rom installation and performance to drawing and video鈥攃hallenging any notion of absoluteness with regard to what constitutes Latin America and its diaspora in the United States, the art that can be associated with it, and how to approach this complex region.
Most works on view are new projects that began during two-month residencies at 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica. The exhibition spans three venues鈥攁n encyclopedic museum (LACMA), a school (Charles White Elementary School), and an artist residency complex (18th Street Arts Center)鈥攐ffering different perspectives, approaches, and scales in each location.
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This exhibition engages 16 U.S. Latino and Latin American artists and collaborative teams working across a range of media鈥攆rom installation and performance to drawing and video鈥攃hallenging any notion of absoluteness with regard to what constitutes Latin America and its diaspora in the United States, the art that can be associated with it, and how to approach this complex region.
Most works on view are new projects that began during two-month residencies at 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica. The exhibition spans three venues鈥攁n encyclopedic museum (LACMA), a school (Charles White Elementary School), and an artist residency complex (18th Street Arts Center)鈥攐ffering different perspectives, approaches, and scales in each location.
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