Annie Albagli and Mareiwa Miller in Conversation, moderated by Qianjin Montoya
Saturday, December 14, 2024 | 2-3pm
Location: Slash (1150 25th St, Building B, San Francisco)
Free in-person event
On the occasion of the closing day of Still[s], an exhibition of ceramic sculptures by Mareiwa Miller in /room/, we invite you to a conversation between Miller and local artist Annie Albagli, moderated by curator Qianjin Montoya. Miller and Albagli will discuss their respective practices and shared interests, including rocks, time, and vessels.
*For inquiries about accessibility or to request an accommodation, please email ana@slashart.org by December 4, 2024.
Annie Albagli explores personal histories and their entanglements with landscapes molded by power—be it government, military, or industry. She has participated in exhibitions and festivals throughout the U.S., and abroad including: 500 Capp Street, Headlands Center for the Arts, Muzeul Zemstvei in Chisinau, Moldova, Art Prospect in St. Petersburg, Russia, and The Trash3 Festival in Bishkek Kyrgyzstan, among others. She is a 2023-26 Lucas Artists Residency Program Fellow at Montalvo Arts Center.
Mareiwa Miller (b. 1994, Santa Marta, Colombia) is a sculptor and visual artist working in San Francisco. Their work delves into their multiracial roots, intertwining narratives spanning their Wayuu, White-Black, and Jewish heritage. Through sculpture and installation, Miller excavates and revisits the stories embedded in the fabric of each of these cultures. Using metal, glass, and ceramics, Miller reshapes these threads, crafting a reimagined narrative that merges mediums and ancestral echoes to decode the past and reimagine the present. Simultaneously, Miller’s work probes the expanded essence of “sacred,” drawing from diverse interpretations including daily rituals, religious beliefs, nature, and societal structures.
Qianjin Montoya is an arts writer and curator whose research-based practice has contributed to exhibitions at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, programming at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and as associate curator at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. She holds an MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts and a BA in Art History from UC Berkeley. She is currently the Academic Liaison at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis.
This event is generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.