This year's Distinguished Alumni Lecturer Pablo Helguera talks about the process and history behind his latest MCA curation.
The Mayfly Conference, workshop/performance at the Chalupecky Society, Prague, 2017. Overlaid with imagery of MCA Chicago visitors interacting with Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled” (The End), 1990. Graphic by Sophia Salganicoff, image courtesy of Pablo Helguera.
A collage-style graphic blending a photograph of a group discussion with layered cut-out imagery. In the photo, participants sit in a circle, with one person speaking into a microphone. Overlaid are large illustrated sheets of paper and tinted green silhouettes of the audience, referencing MCA Chicago visitors interacting with Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s work “Untitled” (The End), 1990.