Institut Ramon LLull

The Drawing Center's Open Sessions feature Catalan visual artist Laia Solé, among others

Arts.  New York, 05/08/2015

Open Sessions is a two-year program created by curators Nova Benway and Lisa Sigal as a platform for artists to find new approaches for contextualizing and exhibiting their work, through conversation, public programs, and gallery installations. The participants are artists, musicians, dancers, filmmakers, poets, theorists, scientists—anyone who is interested in expanding the boundaries of drawing. Laia Solé is a Barcelona born and New York based visual artist and researcher, whose interest lies in public spaces and everyday practices within cities' public space.  




Laia Solé (Barcelona, 1976) is a visual artist and art/educator based in New York. She is interested in urban space as a terrain for cultural expression, as a performatic locus that is constantly being negotiated. Her works seeks to activate forms of representation, interaction and transformation of the multifaceted dynamics that shapes the space and urban life. Most of her works are site-specific, employing video and photography, and often developed with the collaboration of local agents, communities, architects, anthropologists and artists.

Laia Solé has taught at different educational institutions, and has been involved in collective projects: co-curating the show Apamar: charts, metrics and politics of space (ACVic, 2011), and co-directing the forum QUAM 2011: Wikpolis. Cartographies and collective creation of the social space (ACVic, 2011). She is the co-author of the book Balkan Suite (Olot, 2008) and have been artist in residence at the platform Trans Art Laboratori: art in context (Hospital Sant Pau, Barcelona, 2008). Her work has been exhibited in various contemporary art centers, in Spain and abroad.

The Drawing Center

35 Wooster Street, New York

Open Session 4

Drawing Room

August 5-30, 2015

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