Zohn’s Guadalajara

Thursday, May 11, 2023
12:00 PM 1:30 PM

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Join us in a conversation and virtual tour of Alejandro Zohn’s work in Guadalajara with half the cohort of Seeking Zohn’s photographers Onnis Luque and Zara Pfeifer, designers Fabien Cappello and Bob Dornberger and moderated by ⅔ of the curatorial team Mimi Zeiger and Tony - Lorena Canales - Macarena.

Watch the panel below:

Onnis Luque, Mexico City

Onnis Luque is an architectural photographer who studied architecture at The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His work has been published in various magazines such as Domus, Arquine, MONU, Architectural Digest, and PLOT and has been included in several architectural biennials and competitions. His book, USF / DF Appropriation Tactics (CONACULTA / Ediciones Acapulco 2014), documents several years of photographing the Santa Fe Housing Unit in his native home of Mexico City.

ZARA PFEIFER, BERLIN/VIENNA

Zara Pfeifer is an artist based in Vienna and Berlin whose work is concerned with the social phenomena of large-scale infrastructure. Her documentation of the modernist housing project Alterlaa (“Du, meine konkrete Utopie,” 2013-17) and her series on truck drivers (“Good Street!,” 2018-2022) involves extended periods of immersion in the day-to-day life of her subjects. She has worked with institutions, including the MAK Center in Los Angeles and the Austrian Cultural Forum in Berlin. Her publications include Monocle, ZEITmagazin, and Monopol, and she has received a studio grant at ISCP New York from the Austrian Federal Government. Her book ICC Berlin was published in 2022 by Jovis Verlag. Pfeifer studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and photography at the Friedl Kubelka School for Artistic Photography in Vienna. She holds lecturing positions at the Technical University Vienna and the Technical University Berlin.

FABIEN CAPPELLO

Fabien Cappello (France, 1984) is a furniture and product designer. He studied at the University of Art and Design (ECAL) in Lausanne, Switzerland and obtained a master’s degree in Design Products at the Royal College of Art in London in 2009 under the tutelage of Martino Gamper and Jurgen Bey. Estudio Fabien Cappello is a spacial and furniture firm currently based in Guadalajara, Jalisco, after four years in Mexico City. The design studio’s work is part of the permanent collection at SFMOMA, The Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, and the National Centre for the Arts (CNAP) in Paris, France. Cappello’s work shares a high consideration for craft techniques and industrial production, reflecting design through people and their interactions with space, environment, and material culture.

BOB DORNBERGER

Bob Dornberger is an artist and designer based in Los Angeles. He designs and builds custom furniture for architects, artists, interior designers, contractors, and homeowners. He also designs small decorative objects found at retailers throughout Southern California. He occasionally operates a burrito cannon.

MIMI ZEIGER

Mimi Zeiger is a Los Angeles–based critic, editor, and curator. She was co-curator of the 2020-21 cycle of Exhibit Columbus and the U.S. Pavilion for the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. Projects include Soft Schindler at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture and Now, There: Scenes from the Post-Geographic City, which received the Bronze Dragon award at the 2015 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, Shenzhen. Zeiger has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Architectural Review, Metropolis, and Aperture. Zeiger is the 2015 recipient of the Bradford Williams Medal for excellence in writing about landscape architecture. She is a SCI-Arc visiting faculty member.

LORENA CANALES / TONY MACARENA

Tony Macarena is a design queeratorial duo™ that co-produces museums, exhibitions, occasions, and objects. Their practice transits the intersection between hegemonic aesthetics, the commercialization of culture, and the production of identity politics. They undress neo-colonizing and decolonizing dynamics, national representation, and self-exoticization tics.

Tony (Lorena Canales) makes text. She is a curator and teacher from Guadalajara. Tony has a master’s degree in Design, Research, Writing and Criticism SVA 2016 and is currently exploring curatorial, pedagogic, and performance strategies in different settings. She teaches at CENTRO.

Seeking Zohn is made possible, in part, with generous support from the City of West Hollywood, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Pasadena Art Alliance, the Los Angeles City Department of Cultural Affairs, Ago Projects, the Austrian Consulate General Los Angeles, Plant Material, and University of East London Production Support.

Photo Credit: Ruthie Brownfield.