Rotten Fruit / Virtual Artist Talk with Giselle Mira-Diaz & Jose Luis Benavides
@ C33 Gallery
Online
Opening Saturday, February 24th, from 1PM - 2PM\
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Giselle Mira-Diaz’s exhibition Rotten Fruit is an art research project that peels away at the surface to reveal the United Fruit Company’s expansion into Central and South America; the work alludes to the complicated colonial history of those regions. Mira-Diaz utilizes archival materials to create a contemporary response combining photography, film, performance, and paper-making. Stuart Abelson’s Graduate Research Fellowship from Columbia College Chicago enabled Mira-Diaz to travel to Costa Rica and Colombia over the summer of 2023.
Jose Luis Benavides (Chicago, US, 1986) is a Latinx and queer photographer, moving image maker, and lecturer at Wilbur Wright College, City Colleges of Chicago. Working primarily with a range of personal archives, his work explores issues relating to gender, sexuality, culture, and migration. His experimental documentary film, Lulu en el Jardín, tells the story of his lesbian mother’s coming out in Chicago during the 1970s. His work has screened at Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival, US (2020), and other festivals around the world. As an experimental artist, documentarian, and video art programmer he opens conversations, space and time for diverse perspectives from feminist, queer and Latinx perspectives for the virtual archive SinCintaPrevia.com.
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