615 Offerings for the Rain at the Peabody Museum (detail), 2021, Gala Porras-Kim. Color pencil and Flashe on paper, 72 x 72 inches. Courtesy the artist and Commonwealth and Council. Photo: Paul Salveson
Gala Porras-Kim: Artist Talk
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Visual artist Gala Porras-Kim discusses the projects she worked on during her residency at Getty Research Institute (2020–2022). Her works explore the afterlives of objects held in museum collections, and the ways they are subject to institutional paradigms of classification, conservation, and display. To address how museological frameworks obscure the ongoing spiritual life of objects, Porras-Kim offers a series of speculative interventions into how stewardship is enacted in institutional policy.
Gala Porras-Kim lives and works in Los Angeles. Recently, she has had solo exhibitions at the Amant Foundation and Kadist in New York, Gasworks London, the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard. She has also presented works at the São Paulo Biennial, Gwangju Biennial, and the Whitney Biennial.
This program is part of The Fragment series, which explores how fragments have long catalyzed the study of visual culture while also continuing to inform contemporary views of society and art.
The conversation will be available on the Getty Research Institute YouTube channel following the event.