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Donna Huanca: MAGMA SLIT for a conversation featuring Huanca and writer Jazmina Figueroa. Much of the writing on Huanca’s practice focuses on her metal collage sculptures and large-scale paintings, often emphasizing the visual elements of her work, including her gestural and destabilizing lines. Figueroa’s perspective underscores how Huanca’s installation performances, which are essential to her practice, operate beyond the gaze; in using sound as a component, for instance, they provoke multi-sensory responses that are generative, embodied, and entangled.
Figueroa will speak with Huanca about the role chaos plays in the artist’s work. The two will reflect specifically on otherness, nomadism, embodiment, and aesthetic vibrancy, as well as the found materials Huanca pieces together by hand. Central topics will include the spiritual energy of the Andean region that Huanca often references and how she engages temporal fluidity as a way to reject feminine objecthood.
ARTIST BIOS
Donna Huanca completed her education at the University of Houston; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine; and Städelschule, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She has completed several residencies, including at SmackMellon, Brooklyn; Access Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; and Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco. Huanca is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship; Art Matters Grant, New York; Francis Greenberg Award, Art OMI, New York; DeGolyer Grant, Dallas Museum of Art; and a 2016 Hirshhorn Artist Honoree. She has had solo exhibitions at the Marfa Ballroom; Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China; and Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria. Huanca has featured her work in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium; Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha; Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland; and Malmö Konsthalle, Sweden. Her work is held in the collections of the Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China; Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria; and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Jazmina Figueroa is a Berlin-based writer. Currently, she is a fellowship holder at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. Her writings on artistic subjects have been featured in various publications such as Montez Press, March Journal, Texte Zur Kunst, Flash Art, Artforum, The Arts Of Working Class, and others.
