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Art NOW: Rosa Aiello
Noon, December 3, 2018
University Recital Hall
Free admission, everyone welcome

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"This lecture is a discussion about how language and categorization function in both art making and social formation. With reference to my upcoming exhibition at the SAAG, The Coquette, The Prude, I will talk about the simultaneous violence, necessity, and creative potential of structures. I will talk about how language permits the production of shared realities through agreement, and how denial of the possibility of a shared language can be a tool those in power use to preclude solidarity, and to wash their hands of responsibility.  At the same time, I want to hold up the critical and creative imperative of “No,” the necessity of dismissing categories, to move intuitively and resolutely beyond the bounds that they suggest." - Rosa Aiello 

About the Artist
Rosa Aiello is an artist and writer. Her practice most often takes the form of fiction writing, word games, CG animation, live action films, and installation. She is a graduate of the literature program at McGill University, and at Oxford University, and was the student of Peter Fischli at the Staedelschule, in Frankfurt. Recent solo exhibitions include Builder and Demon, Éclair, Berlin; Fate Presto, Muséo Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno; 27 seasons, Galleria Federico Vavassori, Milano; The Demagogue, Bureau des Réalités, Brussels. Her writing has been published in Triple Canopy, Art Papers, CanadianArt, and F. R. David. Her video works are part of the public collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), and of the Centre George Pompidou (Paris). She has upcoming solo shows at Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, and Lodos, Mexico City.

Photo courtesy of artist. Rosa Aiello, The Coquette, HD video still, 2018.