Hulda Guzmán: my flora, my fauna

Description

This catalogue was published on the occasion of the gallery’s exhibition, Hulda Guzmán: my flora, my fauna (October 23-December 21, 2020). Included within are images and details of the artworks featured in the exhibition.

This publication also features a new essay about Hulda Guzmán’s work by Francesca Altamura.

Francesca Altamura is a curator and organizer living in New York (unceded Canarsie/Lenape lands). She recently curated the VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, alongside Lizaveta Matveeva, where they debuted their digital exhibition, “I don’t know whether the Earth is spinning or not…” online at notspinning.world. In 2021, they will curate a group exhibition together at Haus N, Athens, Greece. In 2019, she co-curated “Diedrick Brackens: darling divined” with Margot Norton, for the New Museum in New York; which will also travel to the Blanton Museum of Art, Texas, in 2021. At the New Museum, she curated presentations by Randa Maroufi (2020), Sydney Shen (2019), and Ahaad Alamoudi (2019), and has assisted on exhibitions by artists including Peter Saul, Daiga Grantina, Hans Haacke, Lubaina Himid, Marta Minujín, Nari Ward, Sarah Lucas, Thomas Bayrle, and John Akomfrah. She has curated exhibitions independently at The Carillon Gallery, Tarrant Community College South Campus, Fort Worth, Texas (2019), LADRÓNgalería, México City, México (2017), and The Government Art Collection, London, UK (2016). She has also contributed to the group exhibitions “The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement” (Phillips Collection, Washington DC), “The Same River Twice: Contemporary Art in Athens” (Benaki Museum, Athens), “Strange Days: Memories of the Future” (The Store X, London), and the 2018 New Museum Triennial: “Songs for Sabotage.” She proudly served as Delegate for the New Museum Union—UAW Local 2110, which formed in January 2019. Altamura holds an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London. itmefrankie.online