Carla Lopez Thesis Talk | Inquiétantes étrangetés: when we were all together
March 13 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
On March 13th at 5:00 PM join us for Inquiétantes étrangetés: when we were all together, a thesis talk by UNM MFA candidate Carla Lopez.
In this artist talk, Carla Lopez will unpack the research, process, and concepts behind her MFA thesis exhibition Inquiétantes étrangetés: when we were all together. This collection of drawings depicts psychological spaces that blend family archives, dreams, hauntings, and memories to investigate and complicate narratives of healing and remembrance. Lopez uses the temporal power of spectrality to locate the entanglements of past and present and to draw a path forward, away from sentimental simplifications. Uncanny visual and material disturbances in the drawings fracture the illusion of a singular reality and help to materialize the traces, absences, and shadows of secrets, family relationships, and grief. The drawings thus become palimpsests, records of spectral passages that offer a possibility for transformation.
Inquiétantes étrangetés: when we were all together will be on view at AC2 Gallery from March 8 – 30, 2025.