Zohn at the Schindler House

Thursday, June 1, 2023
12:00 PM 1:00 PM

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Join us in a conversation with half the cohort of Seeking Zohn’s photographers Adam Wiseman, Sonia Madrigal, and Lake Verea, and moderated by two-thirds of the curatorial team Mimi Zeiger and Alejandro Olávarri of Tony Macarena. The "Zohn at the Schindler House” panel will explore the ways photography is a tool to tell complex stories about the lives and afterlives of buildings and cities.

Watch the panel below:

ADAM WISEMAN, MEXICO CITY / LONDON

Adam Wiseman (Mexico City 1970) is a graduate of the International Center of Photography in New York and a former printer at Magnum Photos. His relationship to photojournalism has marked his distinctive career. Wiseman’s subjects are interposed with his understanding of image as something between document and intersubjectivity. He is a Senior Lecturer at the University of East London and divides his time between Mexico City and London, giving lectures and workshops while developing new work.

SONIA MADRIGAL

Sonia Madrigal lives and works in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl. Her work explores different visual narratives that reflect on personal and collective concepts of gender, the body, violence, and territory, with a locational focus on the East Metropolitan Zone of Mexico City. She is part of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte/National System of Art Creators (FONCA). In 2018, she participated in the XVIII Biennial of Photography of the Centro de la Imagen. She was awarded a residency at the Encuentro de Colectivos de Geografía Crítica y Geografías Autónomas (Ecuador, 2019). Madrigal has participated in exhibitions across Latin America, Europe, and the US and published her work in Harper's, Aperture, and The Guardian.

LAKE VEREA

Lake Verea is an artist duet formed in 2005 by Francisca Rivero-Lake and Carla Verea. Their work explores concepts of expanded photography through installation, textile, performance, sculpture, and video. By experimenting with photographic techniques and formats that blur questions of authorship, they build narratives that highlight their combined identity to create intimate portraits of architecture, artists’ archives, and people. They’ve poured through the archives of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, architect Luis Barragán, and German émigrés Josef and Anni Albers, amongst others. Lake Verea’s 2011-2018 “Paparazza Moderna” project explores the idea of architecture as a living being through portraits of single-family houses designed by modernist architects Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Richard Neutra, Rudolph M. Schindler, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Philip Johnson.

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.

ALEJANDRO OLÁVARRI / 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.

Macarena (Alejandro Olávarri) makes images. He is a designer and plant enthusiast from Mexico City. Maca is currently exploring the relationships between the aesthetics of the world’s habitability and the politics of other living beings. He has a master’s degree in Arts and Politics Sciences PO 2022 and is the founder of Botéo PLANTS AND POTS SHOP.

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.

Image: Taiyo Watanabe, 2023
Installation View. Lake Verea, “Vertical Zohn,” 2022-23.