Book Talk: Rodrigo Valenzuela and Max Cleary, In Conversation with Rotem Rozental – Dec 6
- Wednesday
December 6, 2023
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Exclusive book launch event!
© Book cover by Rodrigo Valenzuela
About
Join us for an in-person discussion on Wednesday, December 6th, 7-8 pm PST, @ LACP, 252 S. Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
About
LACP is delighted to launch two books by LA-based artists Rordrigo Valenzuela and Max Cleary. Join us to discuss their projects, New Works for a Post Worker’s World and The Complex Number Zero, respectively, in a conversation with Rotem Rozental about work, labor and photography, exploring photography’s materiality and presence, as well as the meeting points of automation and visual technologies.
About the Artists
Rodrigo Valenzuela (b.Santiago, Chile 1982) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, where he is the Associate Professor and Head of the Photography Department at UCLA. Valenzuela has been awarded the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography and Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship; Joan Mitchell award for painters and sculptors; Art Matters Foundation grant. Residencies include: Core Fellowship; Skowhegan; MacDowell Colony; Bemis Center; among others.
New Works for a Post Worker’s World
Rodrigo Valenzuela works across photography, sculpture, installation, and video to construct scenes that function simultaneously as documents and fiction, and that reflect his ongoing interests in examining industrial and post-industrial concepts of work and the contemporary realities of labor.
Max Cleary (b. Honolulu, Hawaii, 1991) is a Los Angeles based artist working across photography and sculpture. He received his MFA from the University of California Los Angeles in 2019. His work has recently been exhibited at Winston’s, Los Angeles; Kaiao Space, Honolulu; NOON Projects, Los Angeles; Piazza Palazzo, Los Angeles; Helen J Gallery, Los Angeles; Riviera Parking, Santa Barbara; and The Fulcrum Press, Los Angeles.
The Complex Number Zero
Made over a span of nine years, across the islands of Oahu, Hawaii, and Okinawa, The Complex Number Zero documents a search for a familial origin.
Weaving in and out of observed and constructed imagery, Cleary’s first monograph serves as a map in progress. Perpetually incomplete, this map draws a path through the sites, characters, rituals, superstitions, and objects that together define his family.
“The sites of Cleary’s search (for home, for meaning, and for anchors) seem to have a kind of vanishing point, a self-protectionism, a defensiveness, a spiritual seal… [His] pictures form map-like constellations, bridging the superstitious and the intimate, surveying both a homecoming and a departure… [They] allude gently and profoundly to missing puzzle pieces and their unavailability—even to those searching most intensely for them.” — Zoe Koke
Part magic realism, part autoethnography, part love song, this work wrestles with the idea of an origin, its physicality, spirituality, and its history.
Tickets
Admission is FREE. Please RSVP tickets below. Suggested Donation HERE
Details
- Dates: Wednesday, December 6, 7-8 pm
- Free with RSVP!
- Location: Downtown Los Angeles (LACP Headquarters), 252 S. Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.
- Parking: Street parking or paid parking at underground lot across the street: Teraski Budokan Recreation Center, 249 S Los Angeles St.