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Never Spoken Again Curators’ Talk with David Ayala-Alfonso

Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections, installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, 2020. Photo: Eat Pomegranate Photography. Courtesy of MSU Broad and ICI.

Jul 27, 2021

Savannah, GA, USA
Telfair Museums, Jepson Center, Online

Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections, installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, 2020. Photo: Eat Pomegranate Photography. Courtesy of MSU Broad and ICI.

Never Spoken Again is a traveling exhibition that reflects on the birth of modern collections, the art institutions that sustain them and their contingent origin stories. In considering how institutional collections organize our lives, Never Spoken Again brings together artists whose works open up a critique of material culture, iconography, and political ecologies. These practices examine not only the collected objects and the systems of distribution that facilitate their circulation but also the disciplines and subjects of study that they trade in.

Curator David Ayala-Alfonso, along with artists Sofia de Grenade and Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, will discuss this exhibition and practices that question the underpinnings of modern collections and the political ecologies of resource extraction.
 

Presenters
David Ayala-Alfonso

David Ayala-Alfonso is a Colombian curator, artist, and researcher working between Bogotá and London.

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz is an artist who works primarily through the expanded moving image.

Sofia de Grenade

Sofia de Grenade (Chile, 1983) is an artist and university professor living and working in Santiago de Chile.