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Dimensions Variable presents a public conversation with Candelario moderated by project curator, Elizabeth Cerejido. The event will be an open forum with questions and conversation with the audience.
Candelario, a multidisciplinary artist based in Cuba, is the founder and co-director of LASA, Laboratorio Artístico San Agustin – with Aureilie Sampeur as project curator located in the outskirts of Havana where he collaborates with community members through his socially engaged art practice. LASA was created in response to the need “for contemporary artistic practices in the public space” and functions as an experimental framework for “cultural confrontations” in a peripheral area of Havana.
Biographies
Elizabeth Cerejido is a Miami-based independent curator whose research interests include modern and contemporary Latin American art and photography, with an emphasis in Cuban and Cuban-American art, cultural identity and cultural politics. She holds a Masters degree in Latin American Studies and is currently residing between Miami and Gainesville where she is pursuing a PhD in Art History at the University of Florida. Her curatorial projects aim to link artistic practices within their related socio-political contexts. She has contributed to numerous publications and edited volumes on the subject of Cuban and Cuban-American art. Her most recent article titled, Locating Art in Miami and Havana: Strategies for Entering and Exiting Diaspora will be published in 2015 by University Florida Press in a volume co-edited by Ariana Hernández Reguant and Nadine Fernández. Cerejido is former Assistant Curator of Latin American and Latino Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and was Curator at The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University from 2002-2007. Her curatorial projects include: Vision Revealed: Selections from the work of Abelardo Morell; Rubén Torres Llorca: Modelo Para Armar / Easy-to-Build and A Room of One’s Own: Teresita Fernández, María Elena González, Quisqueya Henríquez, and María Martínez-Cañas, among others. She has contributed articles and essays for numerous publications including “Constructing a Narrative, Building a Community”, Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art, Yale University Press, “Beyond a Cuban-American Identity: The Influence of Ana Mendieta and Félix González-Torres in Contemporary Art’ in Encyclopedia of Latino Culture: From Calaveras to Quinceañeras. Greenwood Press and Collecting Moments: Unraveling Stories from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection of Latin American Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM).
