Work by alum Monika Bravo GS'95 is discussed as part of the Ideas City Festival.
The theme of this year’s IDEAS CITY Festival is The Invisible City, an homage to Italo Calvino’s literary masterpiece of 1972. This theme is rooted in civic action, with each of the Festival’s platforms serving as an invitation to explore questions of transparency and surveillance, citizenship and representation, expression and suppression, participation and dissent, and the enduring quest for visibility in the city.
Raquel Rabinovich and Monika Bravo have created works incorporating transparency, layers, and viewer perspective, inspired by Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities. Rabinovich’s Invisible City (2000) is an installation comprised of white metal frames and white gauze forming seven translucent gates. Likewise, Bravo’s Landscape of Belief (2012) features the gradual emergence of a city from nothing. Bravo achieved this by projecting animations of a cityscape onto panes of glass. In this conversation, the artists will discuss their work and their respective interpretations of “invisible cities” in a panel with art critic Ann McCoy and professor Carla Stellweg.
Free event.
