¡Aquí no hay moscas!: Artist Reception w/ Santiago Insignares

The Red Poppy Art House invites you to join the artist and curator behind its next exhibition, ¡Aquí no hay moscas! (‘There Are No Flies here!’), on view until May 14th. In this installation, artist Santiago Insignares uses the metaphor of an incessant swarm of flies by making a direct, visual translation of his frustration with the current technology-driven age. The buzz of the flies and the buzz of a smartphone are brought together by a nostalgic memory, inviting the audience to question the relevance of the symbiotic relationship they have with their phones and what measures should be taken to make this relationship healthier and sustainable.
 
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Santiago Insignares (b. 1986, Troy, New York) is a Colombian artist based in San Francisco, California. He received an MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2015 and a BFA in Illustration and Animation from the European Institute of Design of Rome in 2009. His work has been shown throughout Bogotá at Casa Cuadrada, The Bogotá Art Fair Emerging Artists Pavilion, La Residencia Gallery, as well as in San Francisco at Noroof Gallery, Adobe Books Backroom, The Growlery, and the California Academy of Sciences. His work addresses our relationship with memory, considering themes like trauma, nostalgia, social memory, and their importance in identity creation.
 
ABOUT THE CURATOR:
Elena Mencarelli moved to San Francisco after concluding her master’s degree in visual arts at the University of Bologna, Italy. Previously, she was the artistic director of the Make Your Mark Art Gallery in Melbourne, Australia. In addition to her artistic practice and curatorial background, she is also engaged in art criticism. Elena is the co-writer of the catalogue of the double exhibition Maria Rebecca Ballestra – Alan Sonfist, a better landscape (Unimedia Modern Contemporary Art, Genova, Italy) and is the author of Maria Rebecca Ballestra, a phenomenology of posthumanism, soon to be published in both Italian and English.
 

 
Time: Event 6:30PM
Admission: Free

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