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PRESS RELEASE: LACE 2025 Emerging Curator Shines Light on the Changing Fabric of Los Angeles

Photo: Performance Artist 011668 at Mono Lake. Photograph by Sarah Sitkin. Courtesy the artist.

For LACE’s tenth Emerging Curator presentation, Nahui Garcia curates This Home, Forever, a multi-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.

With the 2025 open call, LACE requested proposals specifically for a curated performance series. Garcia’s proposal was selected from a large pool of applicants by a jury of artists and arts professionals. This year’s jury included Jackie Amézquita, artist; Alex Sloane, Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA); and Julie Tolentino, artist and faculty member at CalArts. 

“Performance has the capacity to respond to our current moment in unexpected, challenging, and visceral ways.” states Sloane. “I was thrilled that LACE chose to focus this Emerging Curator Program on live art and it was invigorating to see the breadth and ambition of the proposed projects. I look forward to attending This Home, Forever and celebrating Nahui Garcia and the phenomenal artists she is bringing together.”

“I am grateful for the opportunity to learn from the invaluable guidance of the LACE Emerging Curator program and to collaborate on a performance series addressing one of the most pressing issues facing the Los Angeles arts community today: gentrification. The featured artists have a profound connection to the city, with deep-rooted ties that many will find relatable. Through their activism and art, they demonstrate the critical importance of nourishing a vibrant arts ecosystem.” states Garcia. Selected artists featured in This Home, Forever include Performance Artist 011668, Perras Bravas, Karla Ekaterine Canseco, Michele Lorusso, Jaklin Romine, and San Fernando Valley music project Pacoima Techno.

Nahui Garcia is an independent writer and curator based in Los Angeles. 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

The Emerging Curator Program is designed to discover curatorial talent in Los Angeles and provides opportunities for emerging curators to partner with LACE. Applicants are reviewed by a panel that recommends a compelling project to the LACE team consistent with LACE’s experimental spirit. Learn more about all past nine Emerging Curator projects, including the 2024 presentation A Fossil, A Ruin, A Memory, curated by Carrie Chen.

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LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) is the longest-running incubator for artists, curators, and cultural workers in Los Angeles, founded in 1978 by 13 artists. LACE is a nonprofit venue that exhibits and advocates for innovations in art-making and public engagement. Uniquely positioned in the heart of Hollywood, LACE provides space for artistic experimentation, exploring new forms of art-making at the edge of the field, and amplifies the voices and visions of Los Angeles’ diverse makers. LACE presents free, significant, and timely exhibitions, performances, and public projects, complemented by education initiatives. www.welcometolace.org

Filed Under: 2020-Current Year, Emerging Curator Program, LACE, News, Performance Tagged With: Alex Sloane, emerging curator, Jackie Amezquita, Jaklin Romine, Julie Tolentino, Karla Ekaterine Canseco, Michele Lorusso, nahui garcia, Pacoima Techno, Performance Artist 011668, Perras Bravas

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“A Tender Excavation” approaches research-base “A Tender Excavation” approaches research-based artistic practices through propositions of alternative histories, bringing together a group of artists who work with historical and familial photographic archives as a point of departure to construct new narratives and elicit transformation.

LACE is thrilled to introduce three of the artists featured in the exhibition...

❥ Jamil G Baldwin (@juh_mile) was born in Lancaster, CA and raised in and across the Inland Empire and Los Angeles. Baldwin’s work explores the ability of the photographic document to reconstitute the histories of images and material into value systems of care.

❥ Camille Wong (@camillexwong) is a research-based artist living in Los Angeles, CA. Their practice examines power, geopolitics, and historiography through the lens of media and spectacle. They approach the gaze of ethnography by authoring the personal into the world through experimental documentary.

❥ Artemisa Clark (@bustilacaca) is a multidisciplinary artist from Los Angeles. She received a MA in performance studies from Northwestern University in 2016 and a MFA in visual arts from the University of California, San Diego in 2015. She has exhibited and presented research in spaces such as MOCA, The Hammer, the Mexican Consulate, the Vincent Price Art Museum, and more.

Join us at the opening reception on Saturday, November 1, 2025 from 2–5 PM at CSULA’s Luckman Gallery. Light refreshments will be provided. RSVP at the link in our bio.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the Teiger Foundation.
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LACE is excited to announce that we will be at the Los Angeles Archives Bazaar this Saturday, October 18, at CSULA! The event will feature 80 local and regional collections, along with practical workshops and exclusive presentations by archivists, filmmakers, and preservationists.

This year’s Archives Bazaar is presented by the LA as Subject Research Alliance in partnership with the USC Libraries, the Cal State LA University Library, and the Cal State LA Pathway Programs Office.

The Archives Bazaar runs from 10–3 PM in the Golden Eagle Ballrooms at Cal State LA. Admission is free. For the full program and exhibitor list, visit laassubject.org.

Slide 1: “The Archival Impulse: 40 Years at LACE” (March 15, 2018 – November 7, 2021). Photos by Chris Wormwald (@christopherwphoto).
Join LACE and multidisciplinary artist Marnie Webe Join LACE and multidisciplinary artist Marnie Weber (@marnieweberstudio) on Thursday, November 13 from 7-9 PM at the Philosophical Research Society (@philosophical_research_society) for the Los Angeles premiere of her latest film, “House of the Whispering Rose” (2025). The screening will also feature Weber’s film “Song of the Sea Witch” (2020).

Filmed at the historic Beverly Estate in Beverly Hills, where silent film star Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst shared their final days, “House of the Whispering Rose’’ takes place against a backdrop of forgotten wealth and grandeur.

Following the screening, LACE’s Curator and Director of Programs Selene Preciado (@selene__preciado) speaks with Marnie Weber to learn more about the making of the films and her collaborations. Light refreshments will be provided.

Reservations are filling up quickly and space is limited. RSVP at the link in our bio.

This program is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
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