In conjunction with the exhibition Crafting Modernity: Design in Latin America, 1940-1980, this three-part series of conversations among Latin American scholars is intended to highlight new research, amplify complexities, and strengthen networks of scholarship and fellowship among creative circles interested in art, architecture, and design.
In this session, scholars Adélia Borges and Anna Burckhardt will present a cross-comparison of the role women played in shaping the profession of design in Brazil and Colombia. This conversation will be moderated by curator Ana Elena Mallet.
Registration
Register for Crafting Modernity Networks, Part 2, on Wednesday, September 4, online via Zoom
Adélia Borges is a Brazilian design critic, historian, and curator based in São Paulo, Brazil. She is the author or co-author of 41 books, including Design + Craft: The Brazilian Path (2011) and Contemporary Brazilian Furniture (2013). As a journalist, she was the director of the magazine Design & Interiores (1987–94); the design editor of Gazeta Mercantil daily business newspaper (1998–2002); and a freelance writer for many Brazilian and international magazines. In the last three decades, Borges has been devoted to exhibitions, seminars, and documentaries that focus mainly on the subject of design as a tool for social change. Since 2016 she has been the curator of the MASP (Museu de Arte de São Paulo) store, which presents a wide selection of Brazilian crafts and design. For her research on design in the Southern Hemisphere in 2021 she received a Doctor Honoris Causa title from the São Paulo State University (UNESP).
Ana Elena Mallet, a Mexico City–based curator specializing in modern and contemporary design, is currently a distinguished professor at the School of Architecture, Art, and Design at Tecnológico de Monterrey. Since April 2021, she has served on the Acquisitions Committee for MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design. With extensive experience advising museums and university collections globally, including M+ in Hong Kong, the Art Institute of Chicago, and LACMA, Mallet has also held key roles such as curator at Museo Soumaya and Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, and chief curator at the Museo del Objeto del Objeto (MODO). She has curated exhibitions internationally, and authored books including La Vida en el Arte: Writings by Clara Porset (2020) and Silla Mexicana (2017). Recently, she curated exhibitions at Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) and Museo Franz Mayer in Mexico City, and co-curated Crafting Modernity: Design in Latin America, 1940–1980 at MoMA.
Anna Burckhardt Pérez is a curator and writer from Bogotá, Colombia, whose work focuses on the intersections of contemporary art, craft, technology, community-based practices, and ecologies in Latin America. She is currently the Neville Bryan Assistant Curator of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago. Previously, she worked at MoMA, where she curated and co-organized several exhibitions and programs, including, most recently, Projects: Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas (2022).
Accessibility
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