Open Studios + Lacustre

Lagos invites you to the Open Studio of Karla Silva, Zaide Harker, and Ken Forbes, as well as the performative presentation Lacustre.

Karla Silva The Baja California–based artist presents the process developed during her one-month residency. Her sculptural pieces materialize a sensitive reflection on the relationship between body, time, matter, and energy through the figure of the human heart—both its physical aspect and the immaterial body it contains. The works make visible subtle layers of information, breath, and processes of transformation that unfold with life itself.

Zaide Harker The paintings created by the Australian artist during his month-long stay reveal the ways in which people may assign meaning or communication to an animal figure, exposing the beauty of the “strange” that lies within personality. Like a mask that becomes a morbid or playful extension of all the possibilities that social segregation represses—whether related to disability, as in the artist’s case with Huntington’s disease, or to queer identity, which is increasingly present in everyday global life.

Ken Forbes With a sense of freedom that comes from working away from his native New York, the artist approaches a new niche within his practice. Using cacao and coffee—materials he has long employed as markers of his African American identity—he builds a narrative that incorporates his experiences and impressions during his time in Mexico.

LACUSTRE*

Performative Presentation. 7 p.m.

An interdisciplinary project bringing together creators from Mexico and Berlin in a transmedia exploration of water, memory, and ecology. The performance weaves sound, image, and movement from an intercultural and contemporary perspective. Visuals by Elena Pardo, Claudia Schmitz, and Azucena Losana; sound by Natalia Pérez Turner, Mieko Suzuki, and Ute Wassermann.

This piece is presented thanks to the Internationaler Koproduktionsfonds (IKF) and the Goethe-Institut, in collaboration with Lagos.

— Lagos