Artist Walkthrough: The Path of the Heart
Fernanda Laguna, No necesito nada del primer mundo / This is a message to the people that live in the first world (I don't need anything from the first world / This is a message to the people that live in the first world), 2001. Newspaper, coins, and acrylic on cardboard suspended from a branch, 15 3/4 x 22 7/16 inches (40 x 57 cm). Collection of Gabriel Vazquez.
Join artist Fernanda Laguna and Associate Curator Rosario Güiraldes for an in-person walkthrough of the exhibition The Path of the Heart.
From the start of her career in the mid-1990s, Fernanda Laguna (b. 1972, Buenos Aires) has charted her own artistic path, making artworks with a unique visual style through a feminist lens. Featuring almost sixty works that span three decades, Fernanda Laguna: The Path of the Heart is the first major survey to focus on Laguna’s expansive drawing practice. The exhibition highlights Laguna’s understanding of art as a language that communicates emotions and foregrounds the role of drawing in an oeuvre that includes Laguna’s work as a visual artist, and also as a writer, curator, activist, and cultural agitator. Fundamental to Laguna’s multifaceted practice is the cultivation of community. In her words, “Art manifests in people; if there are no people, there is no art.”