Curatorial research and preparation for the exhibition “Test, Observe, Analyze, Repeat: Latin American Women in Art and Science”

FAIN: HB-289336-23

Paulina Pardo Gaviria
California State University, Long Beach Foundation (Long Beach, CA 90840-0004)

Research and preparation of an edited volume and other textual materials for an art exhibition focused on contemporary Latin American women artists who incorporate scientific practices into the making of their art.

The proposed exhibition examines how Latin American women artists incorporate scientific practices into art making. By examining their artistic deployment of laboratory aesthetics and methods, it interrogates the individual reception and historical repercussions of prophylactic procedures and contributes to the humanistic understanding of scientific practices as developed by women in Latin America. In doing so, it shed lights on a range of artistic practices developed by women around apparently unrelated disciplines, individual activities, and collective identities that together comprise historical constellations of human experiences. This exhibition features contemporary artworks by Latin American women artists who, by working on the media of printmaking, photography, drawing, and installation, use scientific laboratory aesthetics and methodologies as a strategy to observe, analyze, and make sense of overwhelming sociopolitical situations experienced in specific historical contexts.