Mar 19, 2022, 6 PM – 8 PM

Poetry Reading with Fernanda Laguna

Fernanda Laguna, "Sólo veo lo hermoso" (I only see what's beautiful) from *Set de 12 dibujos* (Set of 12 Drawings), 1994–1995. Ink and color pencil on paper, Six drawings of 8 7/8 x 6 5/16 inches (22.5 x 16 cm) and six drawings of 8 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches (22.5 x 15 cm). Oxenford Collection. Photograph by Bruno Dubner.

Join artist Fernanda Laguna, musician Cecilia Biagini, and poet/translator Alexis Almeida for an evening poetry reading.

Presented in partnership with Wendy’s Subway, this special event will expand on Laguna’s artistic practice that emphasizes sharing of emotional bonds and the cultivation of community. In her words, "Art manifests in people; if there are no people, there is no art."

Please note that this event will be hosted at Wendy’s Subway. For more information, please click the register button below.

Alexis Almeida

Alexis Almeida is the author of I Have Never Been Able to Sing (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018), and most recently the translator of Dalia Rosetti's Dreams and Nightmares (Les Figues, 2019), and the co-translator of Carlos Soto Román's 11, forthcoming from UDP later this year. She teaches at the Bard Microcollege at the Brooklyn Public Library, and edits 18 Owls Press.
Cecilia Biagini

Cecilia Biagini (b. 1967, Buenos Aires Argentina) lives and works in Brooklyn NY since 1998. Cecilia Biagini's work lies in an abstract model where an intuitive poetic field seeks a path of engagement for ideas to converge. Her work extends through a range of media including painting, sculpture, photography and sound.
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.