SAVE THE DATE!
Arts and Society: Dialogues.
Friday April 4, 2024, 10-3pm
@ the SMFA, open to all Tufts
SMFA at Tufts is teaming up with the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Corporate and Foundation Relations to host a spring event featuring wide-ranging, interdisciplinary dialogues across the arts and contemporary society. Welcoming keynote speaker Daniela Rivera, this event aims to create new connections among Tufts faculty through thought-provoking panels, immersive demonstrations, engaging exhibits, and focused "Provocations and Conversations" sessions on themes such as Risk, Materiality, and Sound. Open to the entire Tufts community, this is a unique opportunity to explore and exchange groundbreaking ideas. For more details, contact researchdevelopment@tufts.edu.
Further details are also available on the Vice Provost page.
Daniela Rivera:
Visual artist doing work that attempts to understand the object quality of images.
My paintings are usually site specific and react to the spaces of exhibition. I recreate utilitarian uses of painting, which alter representational and perceptual planes, to make the painting perform as the space and ask the body to assume the role of the figure of the painting.
I am interested in working at the intersection of disciplines and opposing schools of thought. I believe my work tangos with the process of baroque painting techniques and the presentational strategies and formal undertones of minimalist art and some of the conceptual elements of Arte Povera, a fundamental contradiction but a world of possibilities for staging…
https://www.wellesley.edu/people/daniela-rivera
2023 Artist Statement:
I am a cultural producer working as a visual artist. As such, I consider it my responsibility to always challenge the construction of stereotypes or categories that discriminate, isolate, and violently define other’s identities. I work with ideas of displacement, memory, and cultural migration to celebrate difference and reject categorization. I build, paint, and draw spaces in which to be vulnerable together and in which I hope to celebrate difference and cultural exchange through shared authorship.
In my work, I address episodes in political history, the history of art, and personal history to generate open-ended conversations between viewer, artist, and subject. It is, finally, the relationship between these three players that brings the work to completion.
I believe my work tangoes with—among other things—the Baroque painting drive, the presentational strategies and formal undertones of Minimalist art, and some of the conceptual elements of Arte Povera—a fundamental contradiction but a world of possibilities for staging.
