Join us at the DePaul Art Museum for a performative lecture and conversation with Mexico City-based artist Ana Gallardo in collaboration with live, Spanish-to-English interpreter and artist, Fabrizzio Subia. Gallardo will present on her artistic practice spanning over three decades including her current exhibition Tembló acá un delirio on view at MUAC in Mexico City. Ana Gallardo’s work includes drawing, video, social practice, and artistic interventions and is based on the need to make mourning a public process from a perspective that places the open wound of violence against women at the center. An intimate conversation with DePaul Art Museum’s Curator Ionit Behar will follow the presentation.

Born in Argentina and working in Mexico City over the last decade, Ana Gallardo's search as an artist and the vicissitudes of her private life have coexisted fully. She has dealt with different planes of violence as an artist and educator and is currently focusing on the violence of aging. Recent solo exhibitions include: A delirium trembled here, CA2M, Spain (2024) and MUAC, Mexico (2024); Bitácora Guatemalteca (I am looking for you by another name) 1987/2022, Julius Baer Award for Latin American Women artists, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota (2023), and School of Aging, Parque de la Memoria in Buenos Aires (2022).

Gallardo will be visiting Chicago as part of the 2024-25 Collaboration Cohort of the Lit & Luz Festival, a cultural exchange between writers and visual artists from Mexico and Chicago, taking place in Chicago from October 26-November 2.

Presented in partnership with the Lit & Luz Festival and with additional support from the Department of Art and Architecture at DePaul University.