Visiting Artist: Sculptor Leticia Bajuyo
Join sculpture artist Leticia Bajuyo on the RIT campus for a talk and Q-and-A at 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28, in Wegmans Theater (MAGIC Spell Studios).
About the artist
Through her large-scale works, Leticia Bajuyo engages audiences and connects with communities through her site-specific installations that involve community collections of media and memories. Bajuyo’s drawings, sculptures, and installations highlight the impact of desire and the machines that create even more desire.
Her interest in unpacking value perceptions find their roots in her autobiography growing up bi-racial in a small, rural town named Metropolis on the border of Illinois and Kentucky. The time and space of quiet landscapes outside and the multi-national dialogues inside her family’s house influenced the development of her critiques of consumer capitalism, fickle domestic desires, and internalized pressures of assimilation.
Bajuyo’s continued research of cultural privilege and consumer pressure yields a drive to both create and question a vision that is comfortable, contained, and controlled. By incorporating recognizable materials and forms including CDs, artificial grass, and insulation styrofoam, Bajuyo creates spaces and multi-layered experiences that invite audiences to participate in theatrical re-arbitrations of value.
Event Snapshot
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Who
Open to the Public
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