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Come celebrate the opening of 'The Museum Of Multidimensional Mutant Maps' a new solo exhibition by Edgar Fabián Frías at PRS. The opening will feature a guest lecture by writer Katie Hofstadter and a screening of selected films by Frías.
5-8 PM Viewing hours (HANSELL GALLERY)
6 PM : Artist talk and screening (AUDITORIUM)
7 PM: Reception
About the exhibition:
Edgar Fabián Frías' Solo Exhibition "The Museum Of Multidimensional Mutant Maps"
"The Museum of Multidimensional Mutant Maps," a solo exhibition featuring bold new works by interdisciplinary artist Edgar Fabián Frías. On view from January 13 through February 24, 2023, this exhibition transforms the gallery into an immersive museum experience reexamining maps through the lens of imagination, reflection, and reinvention.
Inspired by the Nierika, a Wixárika technology, Frías has created interactive installations, paintings, sculptures, prints, and videos to help guide, confuse, and connect with visitors to this museum. These new artworks are arranged throughout the thematic wings of the museum, each exploring different facets of maps.
By interweaving indigenous, psychedelic, punk, and futurist influences, Frías has constructed a museum at once critical, visionary, and whimsical. Their mutant maps capture traces of haunted pasts, possible presents, and emergent futures - if we dare to reorient our perspectives. Ultimately, this exhibition serves as a testament to the transformative power of indigenous technologies and art practices to prompt reflection, spark imagination, and manifest reinvention.
Come get lost and found again in the prismatic journey of Edgar Fabián Frías' Museum of Multidimensional Mutant Maps.
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Edgar Fabián Frías works in installation, photography, video art, sound, sculpture, printed textiles, GIFs, performance, social practice, and community organizing, among other forms. Frías is Wixárika and their family is from Mexico, though they have lived in the United States for most of their life. Their art addresses historical legacies and acts of resistance, resiliency, and radical imagination within the context of Indigenous Futurism, spirituality, play, pedagogy, animism, and queer aesthetics. Weaving together the traditional and ancestral with the contemporaneous and emergent.
Born in East Los Angeles in 1983, Frías received dual BA degrees in Psychology and Studio Art from UC, Riverside. In 2013, they received an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, with an emphasis on Interpersonal Neurobiology and Somatic Psychotherapy. Frías received their MFA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley in 2022.
Their work has been exhibited internationally, including the Vincent Price Art Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Oregon Contemporary, MOCA Jacksonville, Project Space Festival Juárez, and ArtBo, among others. Their work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Taschen, Bustle, Los Angeles Times, Slate, CVLT Nation, Terremoto, Hyperallergic, and other publications.
edgarfabianfrias.org // @edgarfabianfrias
Katie Peyton Hofstadter is a Los Angeles-based writer, curator and artist exploring the dynamics between culture, technology and power. She has co-founded several international public art campaigns, including ARORA, a network of over 70 artists creating new AR monuments to diverse female and gender-expansive voices in public spaces; the Climate Clock monument, a global call to #actintime on the climate crisis; and Future Art Models, an experiment in prefigurative imagination commissioned by apexart, guiding young creatives to design alternative professional models in the arts. As a writer, she is a contributor to Flash Art, The Believer, BOMB, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, and Right Click Save. Her work has been featured in publications including the New York Times, The Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, Hyperallergic and ArtFCity. For ten years, she has taught at Parsons, The New School, and F.I.T.
On view January 13th - February 24, 2024
Hansell Gallery Hours: Tuesdays-Fridays 12-6pm and by appointment info@prs.org