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Se habla español

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Se habla español es una iniciativa de LACE para conectar con audiencias que se relacionan culturalmente con el español, idioma muy común en Los Ángeles. Se habla español es un esfuerzo para crear espacios temporales multilingüísticos a través de acciones específicas como visitas guiadas, talleres, textos de exposiciones traducidos y prácticas artísticas que exploran cuestiones sobre el lenguaje. Con este proyecto LACE cuestiona el sistema monolingüístico que la mayoría de las instituciones de arte usan en sus espacios, provocando así una conversación crítica que diversifique la forma en la que nos aproximamos al arte.

LACE ha facilitado espacios multilingüísiticos a lo largo de su trayectoria expositiva – La retrospectiva bilingüe de Ana Mendieta en 1989; BAW/TAF el Taller de Arte Fronterizo en 1991, documentando siete años de proyectos artísticos interdisciplinares sobre asuntos entre México y Estados Unidos; Customizing Language (Lenguaje Customatizado) (2015), una exposición que examinó cómo el lenguaje refleja realidades geopolíticas; Proyectos más reciente incluyen: Destino Elei via Tiyei (2019), una exposición que ilumina la historia de LACE,  y su naturaleza experimental y colaborativo; Unraveling Collective Forms (Desenredar las formas colectivas) (2019), una exposición que busca crear un espacio para reunir, recordar, aprender y conectar con la audiencia en un hilo común. Siguiendo esta trayectoria, Se habla español tiene el objetivo de establecer un contenido bilingüe continuo y accesible.

Se habla español tiene sus raíces en el concepto de justicia del lenguaje que reconoce la implicación cultural de preservar diferentes idiomas y de resistir la supremacía de un lenguaje sobre el resto.

Se habla español fue creado por Daniela Lieja Quintanar y Andrew Freire en 2017. En mayo de 2020, Juan Manuel Silverio se unió a el proyecto.

Visitas guiadas en español, cada jueves a domingo bajo solicitud (12-6PM)

Exposiciones
Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailing of the Land/Soil) (2023)
Intergalactix: against isolation/contra el aislamiento (2021)
Ser todo Es ser parte / To Be Whole Is To Be Part (2020)
Destino Elei vía Tiyei (2019)
Unraveling Collective Forms (Desenredar las formas colectivas)(2019)
El Teatro Campesino (2017)
home away from (lejos de casa, hogar) (2017)
Lenguaje Customatizado (2015)

Publicaciones
Customizing Language (Lenguaje Customatizado) (2015)
Taller de Arte Fronterizo: Destino L.A. (1991)

Se habla español es apoyado por Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.

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The works selected for “A Tender Excavation” d The works selected for “A Tender Excavation” depart from personal, familial, or historical photographic archives which ultimately are recontextualized through installation, collage, painting, film, video, sculpture, or mixed media, reimagining and reconnecting lost fragments to speak about personal and collective resilience, constructing new possibilities for an interconnected futurity.

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

✷ Mercedes Dorame (@mercedes.dorame)  is a multi-disciplinary artist who calls on her Tongva ancestry to engage the problematics of (in)visibility and ideas of cultural construction and ancestral connection to land and sky.

✷ Leah King (@leahkinglive) is a multimedia artist working in collage, sound, film, and performance. Her intricately layered visual and sonic works explore race, gender, and power through a futurist lens.

✷ Ann Le (@annsgood) is a LA based artist and Senior Lecturer of Photography and Fine Arts at Loyola Marymount University. Her photomontages explore identity, family history, the diaspora, and the space in between becoming Vietnamese-American.

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.
⭒ We are excited to welcome Jason Villegas to th ⭒ We are excited to welcome Jason Villegas to the LACE team as our 2025 Hisako Terasaki Intern! ⭒

Jason is currently a student at Los Angeles City College studying animation. He is a Mexican American artist making work about queer identity and bear subculture, inspired by indigenous art, pop culture, and consumerism. Jason makes ceramic sculptures, paintings, comics, and enjoys swimming, sci-fi, collecting toys, and his cats.

Join us in welcoming Jason to the team!
“A Tender Excavation” centers identities that “A Tender Excavation” centers identities that have been systematically excluded from mainstream narratives and representations of not only American art but of representing an “American” identity.

LACE is thrilled to introduce 3 of the artists featured in the exhibition...

⋆ Star Montana (@starmontana) is a photo-based artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She was born and raised in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles, which is predominantly Mexican American and serves as the backdrop to much of her work.

⋆ Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai (@prima_jalichndrsakntbhai) is a transdisciplinary artist, working across performance, video and installation, based in Los Angeles. Born in Thailand in 1989, they grew up in Europe before moving to the US in 2011.

⋆ Arlene Mejorado (@ari.mejorado) is an artist from Los Angeles who works through analog and digital image-making processes to contemplate ideas around memory, landscape, and placemaking. Often working intuitively, Mejorado’s practice ranges from traditional documenting to staging scenes that merge elements of installation, performance, and studio photography.

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.
LACE’s new group exhibition “A Tender Excavati LACE’s new group exhibition “A Tender Excavation” curated by Selene Preciado opens at the Luckman Gallery at CSULA on Saturday, November 1! Join us for the opening reception from 2–5 PM. Light refreshments will be provided. RSVP at the link in our bio.

“A Tender Excavation” approaches research-based artistic practices through propositions of alternative histories, bringing together a group of artists that work with historical and familial photographic archives as a point of departure to construct new narratives and elicit transformation. Artists featured in the exhibition include Zeynep Abes, Susu Attar, Jamil Baldwin, Mely Barragán, Artemisa Clark, Arleene Correa Valencia, Mercedes Dorame, Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai, Leah King, Tarrah Krajnak, Heesoo Kwon, Ann Le, Arlene Mejorado, Star Montana, and Camille Wong. “A Tender Excavation” is on view from November 1, 2025–February 21, 2026.

“A Tender Excavation” is made possible thanks to our friends at The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Teiger Foundation.
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