Katie Revilla and Heesoo Kwon in Conversation, Moderated by Kathryn Cua
Saturday, March 22, 2025 | 11am-12:30pm
Location: The Lounge at 1275 Minnesota St, San Francisco, CA 94107
Free event | Register here
In conjunction with Katie Revilla’s site-specific installation You Are a Paradise Enclosed in /room/, Revilla and fellow artist Heesoo Kwon will engage in a dialogue about family archives, inherited objects, and the creation of protective spaces for ancestral healing. Moderated by curator Kathryn Cua, the artists will explore how creative practices can be powerful tools for understanding intergenerational experiences.
The event will begin with a screening of Kwon’s film Leymusoom Garden. After the conversation, we invite everyone to join us for a walkthrough of You Are a Paradise Enclosed at Slash. Coffee and pastries will be provided. We hope you’ll join us!
*For inquiries about accessibility or to request an accommodation, please email ana@slashart.org.
Katie Revilla is an interdisciplinary artist based between the Bay Area and Chicago. She has exhibited her work throughout the U.S. and her research has been supported by UC Berkeley, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Northwestern University. She was a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, attended ACRE Residency in 2021, and graduated from Northwestern University with an MFA in Art, Theory, and Practice in 2023.
Heesoo Kwon is a multimedia artist whose work interweaves digital technology with feminist spirituality and autoethnographic exploration. At the heart of her work is Leymusoom, an ongoing autobiographical feminist religion she founded in 2017, Through 3D animation, modeling, and AI technologies, Kwon creates digital realms where she reimagines matrilineal histories and queers familial relationships. Kwon’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at LACMA, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Buk Seoul Museum of Art, and Huis Marseille – Museum for Photography in Amsterdam. She is a recipient of the 2023 San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Award and 2024 Stepping Stone Grant by Trellis Art Fund.
Kathryn Cua is an arts worker based in the Bay Area. Her work in arts and culture operates at the nexus of exhibitions and publishing. She is committed to creating experiences and producing scholarship that validate alternative ways of knowing and understanding. Cua received her dual MA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied modern and contemporary art history, theory, and criticism and arts administration and policy. She is currently the curatorial assistant for the Asian American Art Initiative (AAAI) at Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University.
This event is generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.