For this Artists at Work, ISCP artist-in-residence Joaquin Segura will discuss his practice and a forthcoming commission in Buenos Aires, 2024. He will be in conversation with interdependent curator, researcher, critic, and editor Sylvie Fortin. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Joaquin Segura is a Mexico City-based artist whose research-driven process draws upon both historical and contemporary issues of power and politics. He works with installation, photography, video, and intervention to explore the ways in which ideologies are reproduced and repackaged across international borders. During his recent ISCP residency, Segura investigated the resurgence of totalitarian thought and widespread cultural conflict in the United States, focusing specifically on its impact on the Global South. He continues to research political turmoil of the 20th century, drawing from poetic voices active during these conflicts.

Segura has exhibited work at Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico; La Panadería, Mexico; Museo Tamayo, Mexico; El Museo del Barrio, New York; Anthology Film Archives, New York; apexart, New York; LAXART, Los Angeles; MoLAA, Los Angeles; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow; and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, among others. 

Sylvie Fortin is an interdependent curator, researcher, critic, and editor based between New York and Montreal. Previous positions include Executive/Artistic Director of La Biennale de Montréal and Executive Director and Editor of the Atlanta-based ART PAPERS. She has also held curatorial roles including Curator-in-Residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Nebraska; Curator of Contemporary Art at Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University, Ontario; Curator at Manif 5 – the 5th Québec City Biennial, Québec; Curator of Contemporary Art at Ottawa Art Gallery, Ontario; and Program Coordinator at LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE, Québec. Her critical essays, reviews, and interviews have been published in numerous catalogues, anthologies, and periodicals such as ART PAPERS, Art Press, Artforum International, C Magazine, E-flux Criticism, Flash Art, Frieze, NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Parachute, PASS, and TextWork.

This program is supported, in part, by ISCP Alumni Fund; Hartfield Foundation; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York City Council District 33; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Sherrill Collection of American Art Foundation; South Arts; James Rosenquist Foundation; Joseph Robert Foundation; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.
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A staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 22 steps. The second floor has 22 artist and curator studios, one exhibition space, and a lounge where remarks by our guest speaker will take place. To access the third floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 24 steps. The third floor has five artist and curator studios. ISCP  can access a freight elevator to bring visitors between the first and second floors on request.

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