6 to 8 pm ET

Location
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York

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(left) Esperanza Mayobre, detail of Serie A.M.O. ($15.20 por galón en el mercado negro) ($15.2 per gallon in the black market), 2020. Courtesy of the Artist. (right) Carlos Motta, detail of Nefandus Trilogy, Nefandus, 2013. Courtesy of the artist and Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon; Galerie mor charpentier, Paris; and P·P·O·W Gallery, NewYork and Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo

(left) Esperanza Mayobre, detail of Serie A.M.O. ($15.20 por galón en el mercado negro) ($15.2 per gallon in the black market), 2020. Courtesy of the Artist. (right) Carlos Motta, detail of Nefandus Trilogy, Nefandus, 2013. Courtesy of the artist.

El Dorado Roundtable: Body and Religion

Art at Americas Society presents a roundtable with artists Esperanza Mayobre and Carlos Motta, moderated by curator Tie Jojima.

6 to 8 pm ET

Location
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York

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(left) Esperanza Mayobre, detail of Serie A.M.O. ($15.20 por galón en el mercado negro) ($15.2 per gallon in the black market), 2020. Courtesy of the Artist. (right) Carlos Motta, detail of Nefandus Trilogy, Nefandus, 2013. Courtesy of the artist and Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon; Galerie mor charpentier, Paris; and P·P·O·W Gallery, NewYork and Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo

(left) Esperanza Mayobre, detail of Serie A.M.O. ($15.20 por galón en el mercado negro) ($15.2 per gallon in the black market), 2020. Courtesy of the Artist. (right) Carlos Motta, detail of Nefandus Trilogy, Nefandus, 2013. Courtesy of the artist.

Overview

Art at Americas Society is pleased to present El Dorado Roundtable: Body and Religion. Join us in person on Wednesday, April 3, 2024, for a roundtable discussion featuring artists Esperanza Mayobre and Carlos Motta. The conversation will be moderated by Associate Curator of Art at Americas Society and co-Curator of the exhibition El Dorado: Myths of Gold Tie Jojima, with an introduction by Director and Chief Curator of Art at Americas Society Aimé Iglesias Lukin. 

This program is organized in conjunction with the current exhibition, El Dorado: Myths of Gold Part II. 

Join us in person on Wednesday, April 3, 2024 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Americas Society
680 Park Ave.
New York, NY
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Speakers

Esperanza Mayobre
Esperanza Mayobre
Multi-media Artist

Esperanza Mayobre is a Brooklyn-based Venezuelan artist whose work often conceptualizes the political and economic events that have led her home country of Venezuela into economic and moral ruin. 

She has exhibited at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Cornell University, the...

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Carlos Motta
Carlos Motta
Multi-disciplinary artist

Carlos Motta’s (b. 1978, Colombia) multi-disciplinary art practice documents the social conditions and political struggles of sexual, gender, and ethnic minority communities in order to challenge normative discourses through acts of self-representation. As a historian of untold...

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Funders

The presentation of El Dorado and related programming has been made possible by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional support was provided by Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund. 

Americas Society thanks Fundación PROA in Buenos Aires and Museo Amparo in Puebla for their collaboration in this project. 

Americas Society acknowledges the generous support from the Arts of the Americas Circle members: Amalia Amoedo, Almeida e Dale Galeria de Arte, Estrellita B. Brodsky, Virginia Cowles Schroth, Emily A. Engel, Isabella Hutchinson, Carolina Jannicelli, Diana López and Herman Sifontes, Antonio Murzi, Gabriela Pérez Rocchietti, Marco Pappalardo and Cintya Poletti Pappalardo, Carolina Pinciroli, Erica Roberts, Patricia Ruiz-Healy, Sharon Schultz, and Edward J. Sullivan.