Artist Walkthrough of Curtis Talwst Santiago: Can’t I Alter

Artist Curtis Talwst Santiago walks us through Can't I Alter, his site-specific, immersive installation that contemplates our interpretations of the past as well as our historical conditioning of the present. Through hand-built architectural constructions, stand-alone drawings, paintings, and sculptures, the immersive installation explores themes of ancestry and the struggle to access lost and tangled histories.

Works on view in Curtis Talwst Santiago: Can't I Alter:

Curtis Talwst Santiago

Curtis Talwst Santiago (b. 1979, Edmonton, Alberta) studied as an apprentice of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun. Santiago has exhibited internationally at venues such as The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; The New Museum, New York, NY; The Eli and Edythe Broad Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; the Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada; The Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; and the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; among others. The artist was included in the SITE Santa Fe SITELines.2018 Biennial, Casa Tomada, in Santa Fe, NM and was featured in the 2018 Biennale de Dakar in Dakar, Senegal. His work is in the permanent collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.

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Video by Oresti Tsonopoulos, 2020.