Apr 5, 2022, 6 PM

Fernanda Laguna: The Path of the Heart Virtual Book Launch

Join us to celebrate the launch of Fernanda Laguna: The Path of the Heart — the first monograph of Laguna's work that brings together new and illuminating scholarship on her career.

Rosario Güiraldes, Associate Curator and the book's editor, and contributors Chris Kraus, Cecilia Palmeiro, Nicolás Guagnini, and Fernanda Laguna, will discuss Laguna's multidisciplinary practice and her unique employment of drawing as a tool to connect with others, and the radical possibilities of art that comes from poverty.

Drawing Paper 148, Fernanda Laguna: The Path of the Heart is co-published with the Institute for Studies of Latin American Art (ISLAA).

ASL interpreters will be available during this event.

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Nicolás Guagnini

Nicolás Guagnini is an Argentine artist and writer living in New York. His work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Centre Pompidou, and the Museums of Modern Art in Buenos Aires and São Paulo. His writing has been published in October, Texte Zur Kunst, and Artforum, as well as in exhibition catalogs published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Whitney Museum. He was a co-founder of Union Gaucha Productions, an experimental film production company, and of Orchard, a cooperative gallery on the Lower East Side in New York City.
Chris Kraus

Chris Kraus, a writer and a critic, is the author of eight books and numerous monographs on contemporary art and artists. Her novels include Aliens & Anorexia and Summer of Hate, and her most recent essay collection is Social Practices (2018). Kraus’s first novel, I Love Dick, was adapted for television. Her work has been translated into twenty-two languages. She is a co-editor of the independent press Semiotexte, alongside Hedi El Kholti.
Fernanda Laguna

Fernanda Laguna (b. 1972, Buenos Aires) lives and works in Buenos Aires. She studied at the Prilidiano Pueyrredón School and continued her training under the mentorship of artists Guillermo Kuitca, through the Fundación Proa Fellowship, and Jorge Gumier Maier, through the Rojas Gallery. Solo exhibitions of her work have been presented by the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia (2020), and Campoli Presti, Paris (2018). Over the past several years, Laguna has participated in Take Me (I’m yours), Villa Medici, Rome, curated by Christian Boltanski, Hans Urlich Obrist, and Chiara Parisi (2018); SITElines 2018: Casa Tomada, Site Santa Fe, curated by José Luis Blondet, Candice Hopkins, and Ruba Katrib (2018); A Universal History of Infamy, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2017); Cuenca Biennial, Ecuador (2014); the 9th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2013); Fetiches Críticos, Museo de la Ciudad de México (2010); Beginning with a Bang! From Confrontation to Intimacy, Americas Society, New York (2007); and Ouro Sentimental, Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro (2007). Her works are in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Pérez Museum, Miami; Kadist Collection, San Francisco; Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); and Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City.
Cecilia Palmeiro

Cecilia Palmeiro is a professor of Cultural Studies and Gender Theory at New York University in Buenos Aires and at National University of Tres de Febrero (UNTREF). She has published books on art, literature, and politics. Together with Fernanda Laguna, she is the curator of the living archive High on the Tide: Diary of a Feminist Revolution. She is a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study and a member of the Ni Una Menos collective.

Drawing Paper 148, Fernanda Laguna: The Path of the Heart is co-published with the Institute for Studies of Latin American Art (ISLAA).

ASL interpreters will be available during this event.

Tips for a Successful Zoom Session

Documentation