Photo: Performance Artist 011668 at Mono Lake. Photograph by Sarah Sitkin. Courtesy the artist.
This Home, Forever
Curated by Nahui Garcia
LACE 2025 Emerging Curator
Saturday and Sunday, June 7–8, 2025, 7–10 PM
Heidi Duckler Studio
1206 Maple Ave., Ste. 1100B, Los Angeles, CA 90015 (Bendix Building)
Free admission
This Home, Forever, is a two-day performance series sparking thoughts about the potential erosion of Los Angeles’s diverse and vibrant urban ecosystem against the backdrop of gentrification. Through immersive performances that encourage audience participation via movement or dialogue, the series asks, if Los Angeles is a chosen home for many, how do we ensure that every person feels unequivocally woven into its tapestry?
This Home, Forever is a stage, a forum, and a dynamic workshop nurtured by a group of artists and activists devoted to and inspired by Los Angeles. As development projects and rising living costs displace our communities to the periphery, it becomes crucial for every resident to confidently say: Here I belong. This is my home, forever.
Participating artists include Performance Artist 011668, Perras Bravas, Michele Lorusso, Jaklin Romine, and San Fernando Valley music project Pacoima Techno.
About the Curator
Nahui Garcia is an independent writer and curator based in Los Angeles, currently working as assistant curator at JOAN. In 2022, she earned her MA in Curatorial Studies and the Public Sphere from USC Roski School of Art and Design. Her thesis centered around two pioneers of Latin American feminist art: Mónica Mayer and Lotty Rosenfeld. Prior to Roski, Garcia worked as the Program Coordinator at Museo Nacional de Arte in Mexico City, where she organized panel discussions, workshops, and symposia on early 20th-century art. Garcia most recently worked as a Curatorial Assistant for Nour Mobarak’s exhibition Dafne Phono at JOAN Los Angeles, a Research Assistant for Carolina Caycedo’s We Center Life at the Center / Situamos la vida en el Centro at the Vincent Price Art Museum, and a Development and Research Associate at Project X Foundation. In her work as a curator, Garcia is the 2023 recipient of the Fellows of Contemporary Art, Curator’s Lab. Her work has been published by Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles and the Performance Art Museum in Los Angeles.
About the Emerging Curator Program
This Home, Forever is the tenth presentation from the LACE Emerging Curator Program. Designed to discover curatorial talent in Los Angeles, each year’s selected Curator/Curatorial Team works with the LACE staff over a year to plan and collaborate on the presentation and public programming.
This program is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Special thanks to our friends at the Heidi Duckler Studio for their support while LACE’s Hollywood gallery is under renovation.
