Join us for a virtual lecture performance and discussion with internationally exhibiting visual artist Ana García Jácome. On Sunday, June 27, 2021 at 6pm Garcia Jácome will give an intimate table read of her 2020 published article, “It’s Like She Never Existed: The Family Story and the Assembly of Disability”. Following the performance we will discuss several of her video works and career engaging zine art, Disability Studies and contemporary practices.

Register in advance for this special performance and discussion with Ana Garcia Jácome on Sunday, June 27, 2021 at 6pm: Register here. The event will have auto generated captions. Transcript of the reading available here. A subtitled version of the whole event will be available afterwards.

Watch the videos “Es como si nunca hubiera existido”, 2018, 22 min. and “The [ ] History of Disability in Mexico”, 2021, 15 min. by Ana Garcia Jácome on https://sincintaprevia.com

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Ana Garcia Jácome’s incredibly personal and moving approach to video incorporates performance, weight, gravity, and the body in truly inspiring ways. Her imaginative and intimate work delves into histories of occlusion spanning from personal narrative to socio-political identity. Her work holds a sense of reserve and vulnerability packed with a uniquely cautious charge. Her material floats at times, levitating viewers toward themes which pull one back down to earth, with a constant reminder of the full weight of the body.

Sin Cinta Previa is honored to present several video works, and a live performance/discussion with Ana Garcia Jácome. Bringing awareness to histories of ableism while re-think privilege and visibility, her work causes us to rethink the image, who it is for and who it might represent, the accessibility of images and the artist’s role and responsibility in reproducing visual hierarchies. Ana Garcia Jácome’s oeuvre opens our world to deeper empathy, understanding and possibilities for all folks along multiple body-mind spectrums while primarily considering varied abilities and a range of cognitive experiences of the world.

You may also see the work of Garcia Jácome, We Protest Against Polio in the exhibition What Flies But Never Lands? at the Chicago Cultural Center on view June 2, 2021 to September 4, 2021. She is also exhibiting portions of “It’s like she never existed” opening on July 2, 2021 at Prizer Gallery in Austin, Texas.

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About the artist:

Ana García Jácome is a Mexican visual artist that graduated from the School of Arts and Design of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (FAD, UNAM) and got an MA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with the support of the scholarship program of Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo. She works with different media such as drawing, writing, video and archives. Her practice addresses the social construction of disability and looks for ways to rearticulate its narratives. In 2016 she was part of the Photographic Production Seminar at Centro de la Imagen. She had the Young Creators grant from FONCA in the 2017-2018 period. Her work has been exhibited at the Autonomus Gallery of the FAD, Centro Cultural Casa Talavera, and Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City; ULTRAcinema festival in Guelatao, Oaxaca: Links Hall, 6018North, and Wabash Window at SAIC in Chicago.

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