Upcoming visiting lectures: September 2024 @ Moss Art Center (Blacksburg, VA) | May 2025 @ Art Gallery, York University (Toronto, ON).
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I’m David Ayala-Alfonso, a curator, writer and researcher based in Mexico City.
My traveling exhibition, Never Spoken Again, opens September 26 at the Moss Art Center, in Virginia. Contact Independent Curators International for info on how to book the exhibition for 2025 and 2026!
(August 2024) New citations of my work: (In)Tensiones Que Impulsan (Ibague, Colombia, 2024, available in Spanish) and Object Studies (NY/Switzerland, 2024). Links and description on my publications section!
(June 2024) Daniel Tucker (UArts Philly) interviewed me about rituals and deep hanging out in my curatorial practice. Click here to read!
(April 2024) Amy Lilly reviews the Fleming Museum iteration of Never Spoken Again, for Seven Days Vermont. Click here to read.
(March 2024) Jeronimo Duarte-Riascos (Columbia University) reflects on my collaborative project: “IDCT” in: Ways of Lying: Parafiction in Contemporary Latin American Art.
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Read my latest texts on exhibitions, curatorial practice and more, on my writing platform, acopyisacopyisacopy.com.
Buy or read about Latin American Artists, a book where I served as an advisor and author (October 2023, Phaidon)
Browse the website of Where You Left Off, an artist exchange and curatorial experiment I created with Tally de Orellana. Next stop is Mexico City (2024).
Buy the book Theorizing Heritage Through Non Violent Resistant, with my latest published chapter on art, popular culture and critical heritage.
Never Spoken Again, installation shots from the Eli & Edythe Broad Museum; the Telfair Museums; and the Fleming Museum, 2004.
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—David.
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