Performance: Mónica Alcázar-Duarte, << code { eraseure } >>

October 10, 2022

Silver Street Studios

2000 Edwards St., Houston, TX 77007

Mónica Alcázar-Duarte presents the US debut of her performance, << code { eraseure } >> (2022) for the FotoFest Biennial 2022 exhibition, If I Had a Hammer. This performance is an intimate meditation on the systemic biases that exist within computational, algorithmic, and technological structures.

About the artist:
Mónica Alcázar-Duarte is a Mexican-British multidisciplinary visual artist whose work acknowledges her Indigenous heritage while exploring current ideals of progress. She embraces themes related to science and technology and their influence over society and the natural world. In her projects, she mixes images and new technologies, such as augmented reality, to create multi-layered work, producing meaning through seemingly disconnected narratives. Alcázar-Duarte’s work references Western society’s obsession with speed, expansion, and resource accumulation as an index of advancement at a time in which ecological disaster looms, and considers other ways of seeing, knowing, and being in the world.

In 2022, she was awarded a residency with Light Work through Autograph Gallery in London, as well as a Wayfinder Award from the National Geographic Society. Alcázar-Duarte has been granted fellowships by the MEAD Foundation, Ampersand Foundation, Bar-Tur Foundation, and the British Arts Council. She is a member of the board of trustees for The Royal Photographic Society and Photo Fringe. Her work has been exhibited and collected throughout Europe, Mexico, and the United States in places such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Autograph Gallery in London, and Wilhelm Hack Museum in Germany.

FotoFest Biennial 2022 Media Sponsor:

Glasstire