Slanguage Studio, founded in 2002 by Karla Díaz and Mario Ybarra Jr., works out of a shop window in the Latino neighborhood of Wilmington, in the heart of Los Angeles (USA). It is a group made up of young urban artists that currently has a series of collaborators engaged in making works of art, installations, performances, residencies, exhibitions, coordinating events and directing art- education workshops. Its projects focus on urban conjunction, history and street culture.
Karla Díaz was born in 1976 in Los Angeles, where she took a Master’s in Fine Arts at the California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at the Getty Museum (Los Angeles), the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA, Chicago), the Serpentine Gallery in London (England), and the Museo Instituto Cervantes in Madrid (Spain).
Mario Ybarra Jr. was born in 1973 in Los Angeles. He took a Master’s in Fine Arts at Irvine University. His work has been shown at ArtPace (San Antonio, Texas), Bob Van Orsouw (Switzerland), the Art Institute of Chicago, the Tate Modern (London, England), the Whitney Museum (New York, USA) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
The esthetic and pedagogical practice conducted by Slanguage Studio in other countries travel to Medellín for MDE11. Its project seeks to foster discussion of urban and social issues such as destabilization of homes, poverty, political and cultural identity, and marginal, invisible stories implemented by Slanguage Studio through art workshops. Slanguage Studio makes an installation-intervention at the Centro de Desarrollo Cultural de Moravia, where it recreate a version of its space for use as an art laboratory. With the support of students at the Cultural Center, held workshops in drawing, painting, performance, sound and sculpture workshops, in addition to an exhibition focusing on a community-developed theme.
Website
www.slanguagestudio.com
Links of interest
‘Texting and Graffitti: Understanding the Reader in Contemporary Art’, by Karla Díaz
‘A Return Engagement’, by Richard Guzmán
Social networks
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Twitter
Contact
nfo@slanguagestudio.com
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