Artist Carolina Caycedo joins writer Roxane Gay for a conversation about Caycedo’s installation Spiral for Shared Dreams within the context of their shared interest and involvement in ecology and feminism.
This conversation is part of One Work, a series of live conversations about one work of art, told by the artist in dialogue with a thoughtful and curious moderator.
Carolina Caycedo is a Colombian multidisciplinary artist living in Los Angeles. Her immense geographic photographs, lively artist’s books, hanging sculptures, performances, films, and installations are not merely artworks, but gateways into larger discussions about how we treat each other and the world around us. Through her studio practice and fieldwork with communities impacted by large-scale infrastructure and other extraction projects, she invites viewers to consider the unsustainable pace of growth under capitalism and how we might embrace resistance and solidarity. Informed by Indigenous and feminist epistemologies, she confronts the role of the colonial gaze in the privatization and dispossession of land and water. Process and participation are central to Caycedo’s practice as she contributes to the reconstruction of environmental and historical memory, a fundamental space for climate and social justice. Caycedo is a 2023–24 Soros Arts Fellow and a 2023–24 Getty Research Institute Artist In Residence.
Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestseller Bad Feminist, the national bestseller Difficult Women, and the New York Times bestseller Hunger. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. She has several books forthcoming and is also at work on television and film projects. She also has a newsletter, The Audacity, and once had a podcast, The Roxane Gay Agenda.
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One Work is a conversation series in which contemporary artists talk about the stories behind a specific work on view in the galleries. Each program, moderated by a conversation partner, addresses audience questions and offers insight into the artist’s process.
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