“It was through underground clubs and underground culture that I was introduced to art and dissident thinking. For me, being underground and clandestine, there’s magic there, in those spaces where we’re not surveilling ourselves.”
Episode 7: Becoming Visible, Being a Thorn, and Seeking Justice
Episode 8: Committing to Showing Up and Shifting Frameworks
Sandra de la Loza creates open-ended, research-based frameworks that guide inquiries that include visual, experimental, and social components. Working as a performative archivist, she moves from and in between the institutional and the social occupying a variety of sites to interrogate underlying power dynamics and knowledge production through history and memory.
You can also find Sandra de la Loza here:
Mural Remix: a Q&A with Sandra de la Loza at LACMA.
Sandra discusses her work in the context of social practice in this article published by Performing Public Space.
Watch Sandra give a lecture about Chicano murals for L.A. Xicano: A Symposium of Art and Place Over Time.
Read more: The Pocho Research Society Field Guide to L.A. — Monuments and Murals of Erased and Invisible Histories.
Selected Work:
Sandra de la Loza, Campo de Cahuenga: Ghostly Ruin. 2019. Video, fog, air, plastic, light, dimensions variable. Installation view, To Oblivion: The Speculator’s Eden, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), July 10, 2019–September 1, 2019. Photo: Chris Wormald.
To Oblivion: The Speculator’s Eden, installation view, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), July 10, 2019–September 1, 2019. Photo: Chris Wormald.
To Oblivion: The Speculator’s Eden, installation view, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), July 10, 2019–September 1, 2019. Photo: Chris Wormald.