SCAD deFINE ART artist talk: Iván Argote

Join artist Iván Argote and SCAD Museum of Art assistant curator Haley Clouser as they discuss his new exhibition The Burden of the Invisible, presented as part of SCAD deFINE ART 2024. In his recent paintings, sculpture, and film, Argote re-envisions public spaces and historical monuments around the world. His multidisciplinary practice encourages contemplation on the narrowed histories public spaces and objects often commemorate while offering the possibility to reflect multiple narratives.

About the artist
Through sculptures, installations, films, and interventions, Iván Argote (b. 1983, Bogotá, Colombia; lives and works in Paris) questions our relationships to power structures, belief systems, and each other. He develops strategies based on tenderness, affect, and humor through which he generates critical approaches to dominant historical narratives and proposes new symbolic and political uses of public space. Argote studied graphic design, photography, and new media at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá and holds an M.F.A. from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA) in Paris. Recent solo exhibitions include Prémonitions at Perrotin, Paris; Aliens en Madrid at Albarrán Bourdais, Madrid; Chaflierplatz at Dortmunder Kunstverein, Germany; A Place for Us at Perrotin, New York; All Here Together at Artpace, San Antonio, Tex.; Juntos Together at Arizona State University Art Museum, Phoenix; Radical Tenderness at Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); and Somos Tiernos at Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, among others. His works are held in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; ASU Art Museum, Phoenix; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami; Colección de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá; Kadist, San Francisco; and Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA).

This event is free and open to the public and is presented as part of SCAD deFINE ART 2024.