Sur Gallery presents María Elena Ortiz

Thursday, February 20, 2025, 7 pm ET
Via Zoom
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Networks of Solidarities: María Elena Ortiz

Networks of Solidarities is a presentation focusing on the recent exhibition Flow States– LA TRIENAL 2024 of Latinx contemporary art at El Museo del Barrio curated by Rodrigo Moura, Susana V. Temkin, and María Elena Ortiz. With a series of new commissions and pre-existing works, the exhibition considers a diasporic network of solidarities embodying Latinx Art. The presentation defines the art and artistic tendencies in relation to themes pertaining to notions of the self, migration, displacement, and contested histories. With a multigenerational approach, Flow States presents a series of practices raging from painting, conceptual art, installation, social practice, sculpture, video, and others, including artists from the US, Latin America, Europe, the Philippines, and the Caribbean. This conversation presents a creative sprawling arrangements connected through similar historical experiences and languages.

Installation view of Cosmo Whyte, Persona Non Grata, 2024, in Flow States– LA TRIENAL 2024 at El Museo del Barrio, New York. Courtesy of the artist and Anat Egbi Gallery, Los Angeles/New York.

About the Speaker

María Elena Ortiz is the Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, where she organized Jammie Holmes: Make the Revolution Irresistible (2023) and Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940 (2024). She co-curated Flow States– LA TRIENAL 2024 at El Museo del Barrio in New York with Susana Temkin and Rodrigo Moura. In 2023, she co-curated Puerto Rico NegrX at Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico in San Juan with Marina Reyes Franco. For almost a decade, she was curator at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), where she curated the group exhibitions Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection; The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Caribbean Art; and solo exhibitions with Firelei Báez, Ulla von Brandenburg, William Cordova, Teresita Fernández, José Carlos Martinat, Carlos Motta, and Beatriz Santiago Muñoz. At PAAM, Ortiz founded the Caribbean Cultural Institute, a curatorial platform dedicated to Caribbean Art. Ortiz is a 2025 Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellow.

About the Latin American Speakers Series

The Latin American Speakers Series aims to contextualize contemporary art within Canada as well as enrich our understanding of the art from both the continent and the diaspora through lectures, audio-visual presentations, group critiques with local artists, workshops, and online interviews.

The Latin American Speakers Series is presented by LACAP/Sur Gallery and is conceived and curated by Tamara Toledo.

For more information contact:

LACAP/Sur Gallery
39 Queens Quay East, Suite 100
Toronto, ON M5E 0A5
www.lacap.ca
www.surgallery.ca
info@lacap.ca
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LACAP and Sur Gallery acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts; the Government of Ontario; Ontario Arts Council; Toronto Arts Council; and The City of Toronto through section 37. LACAP and Sur Gallery also acknowledge its sponsors See Through Web and Hoffworks Productions.