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Lolo y Lauti is a duo of contemporary Argentine artists who have been working together since 2011. Their work includes video, performance, sculpture, installations and photography presented in formats ranging from exhibition to opera, through social networks and virtual reality. They claim humor as an autonomous experience and a tool to address topics such as sexuality, drugs, death and fine arts. They have shown their work in museums, galleries and festivals in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Chile, Colombia, Spain, United States, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Panama, Peru, United Kingdom and Uruguay.
They held residencies at Villa Lena and SEA in Greece, and at ISCP in New York, among others. They recently obtained the 2022 Buenos Aires Art Week Award and the 2023 Amigos del Bellas Artes + ArtHaus Performing Arts Prize, as well as the Williams Foundation and Argentine Mozarteum Research Scholarship at the Cité Internationaledes Arts in Paris. They also have a career as curators, having organized PERFUCH (Argentina’s first performance arts festival) in all its editions, as well as curating many individual and group shows in Buenos Aires. 📸 Tom Little
Claudia Martínez Garay (b. 1983, Ayacucho, Peru) + Arturo Kameya (b. 1984, Peru) are a collaborative Peruvian-born artist duo working between Lima, Amsterdam, and beyond.
Together, the duo interrogate Peruvian identity under colonial legacy, exploring how state power, cultural extraction, and historical narratives continue to shape collective memory. Their work has been shown in immersive exhibitions such as Opaque Spirits at Marres, where they transformed the venue into a haunted metaphor for state failure and spiritual afterlife.
This upcoming exhibition at Mattress Factory is presented in collaboration with Carnegie Museum of Art as part of the 59th Carnegie International. 📸 Tom Little
$14.99 general admission, free for members. Register here.
Amanda Ross-Ho’s work takes the form of sculptural installations and material environments that propose dynamic and imagined ecologies of labor, time and the building of speculative archives. Through close observation, she identifies and brings into form connective tissues between personal and eternal conditions. She builds formal syntax comprised of objects, images, and performative gestures mined from personal and collective phenomena, which aim to inscribe meaning through poetic systems of circuitry and taxonomy. Utilizing conflicting sensibilities of the forensic, hyperbolic, and theatrical, her work aims to function as a sensitive instrument: tuned to carefully observe, record, transcribe and translate the landscapes of our made and lived in surroundings.
Amanda Ross-Ho was born in Chicago in 1975. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Ross-Ho has exhibited widely in museums and galleries worldwide, including solo exhibitions at Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway (2019) Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2017); Vleeshal, Middleburg (2016); Praz-Delavallade, Paris (2015); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (2014); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2012). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2016), Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach (2011); Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2010); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010); the Whitney Biennial, New York (2008); among many other institutions. 📸 Tom Little
Mattress Factory presents Akea Brionne in partnership with Pedantic Arts Residency.
Akea Brionne is an interdisciplinary researcher and artist, working at the intersection of lens and fiber based media. Her practice explores the relationship between colonial and imperialist history and their impact on identity politics, cultural storytelling, memory, and assimilation. Her work analyzes this primarily through the observation within the African Diaspora, with a particular emphasis on Creole culture. 📸 Courtesy of the artist
Greer Lankton: Could It Be Love
Curated by Francis Schichtel and Jordan Weitzman
Could It Be Love presents an intimate and powerful photographic survey of Greer Lankton (1958–1996), the legendary East Village artist known for her uncannily lifelike dolls and fearless exploration of gender, beauty, and the body. Featuring 24 rarely seen photographs of her iconic dolls, taken by Lankton herself, this exhibition reveals her uncanny ability to imbue life into her sculpted figures as they lounge, gossip, and perform across New York’s gritty and gorgeous downtown scene.
This exhibition celebrates Lankton not only as a trailblazing trans artist but also as a completely original image-maker whose lens captured a world of oddballs, queer icons, and doll-like doppelgängers with equal parts glamour, melancholy, and wit. Presented in partnership with Magic Hour Press, Could It Be Love follows the release of the first major monograph on Lankton’s photographic work.
Greer Lankton was one of the most significant artists to have taken part in the revolutionary art scene of New York City’s East Village during the 1980s. Lankton grew up in Park Forest, IL, where she graduated a year early from high school to attend the Art Institute of Chicago from 1975 to1978. That year she moved to New York City and received her BFA from Pratt Institute in 1981. By then Lankton had secured her reputation as a leading figure in the social ferment of NYC in the 1980s through her visceral doll sculpture, and now lesser-known performances and minimalist soft sculpture.
Lankton’s exhibitions and performances included those at PS1, Club 57, Pyramid Club, Franklyn Furnace, Civilian Warfare Gallery, Hal Bromm and the Whitney Biennale, NYC. She also exhibited across the US and Europe, including the UK, Austria and the Venice Biennale, Italy. She exhibited her first full-scale installation artwork at the Mattress Factory Museum shortly before her untimely death in 1996. 📸 Greer Lankton
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