Laura Huertas Millán, Curanderxs, 2024, video still. Courtesy of the artist.
Wednesday, October 15 at 6:30 PM
Barnard Hall, The Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard College
2961 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
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Please join us on Wednesday, October 15 at 6:30 PM at Barnard College for an artist talk by Colombian–French artist and 2024 AWARE Nouveau Regard Prize recipient Laura Huertas Millán. The artist will present an evening of screenings and conversation about her recent work.
This event marks the conclusion of Huertas Millán’s two-month AWARE Nouveau Regard Prize residency in New York City, co-organized by Villa Albertine, A.I.R. Gallery, and AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions.
Please note: Because Barnard College's campus is closed to those not affiliated with the university, you must include the names and email addresses of all members of your party in your RSVP at least 48 hours in advance of this event.
Laura Huertas Millán is a Colombian and French artist and filmmaker based in Brussels, Belgium. She approaches cinema as an oneiric, diasporic, and multi-cultural medium. In the past twenty years, she has developed a hybrid practice through historical inquiries and cinematic fabulation, revolving around ecological resistances, the legacies of cultural dissidences in Latin America, and artistic strategies to exit coloniality. Her modular approach to storytelling encompasses film, installations, writing, pedagogy, and expanded media. While grounded in real-life contexts and collaborations, her work reclaims fiction as an emancipatory tool, where altered states build potential sites of healing and commonality, and imagination is the most precious political treasure. Selected in major cinema festivals such as the Berlinale, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Rotterdam International Film Festival, New York Film Festival and Cinéma du Réel, her films have been awarded at the Locarno Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Doclisboa and Videobrasil, among others. Recent solo exhibitions include ℅ Berlin, the Crespo Foundation, MASP Sao Paulo, Maison des Arts de Malakoff and Medellin’s Modern Art Museum. She was part of Seoul Mediacity biennial, the Sharjah Biennial, the Liverpool Biennial, FRONT Triennial, Videonnale and ScreenCity Biennial; as well as groups shows at MOMA, LACMA, Banco de la Repùblica de Colombia, among others. In 2024, she was AWARE Nouveau Regard laureate as well as the recipient of the Ulrike Crespo After Nature Prize.
About the AWARE Prizes
Since their creation in 2016, the AWARE prizes have shone a new light on the careers of women artists and increased recognition of their work. In 2022, one of the two AWARE prizes, hitherto dedicated to emerging artists, became the Nouveau Regard prize to be awarded to mid-career artists, who are currently less supported by existing prizes and the art world. The winner of this new prize benefits from a residency at the Villa Albertine and tailored accompaniment by A.I.R. Gallery in New York. As part of its partnership with AWARE, the Cnap (Centre national des arts plastiques) offers the winner of the Nouveau Regard prize the acquisition of works that will join its collection. The winning artist also benefits from a production grant for a solo exhibition to be held within the D.C.A network (French Association for the Development of Contemporary Art Centers).
About AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions
AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions is a non-profit association dedicated to shining a light on women and non-binary artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Since its creation in 2014, AWARE has worked to make thousands of artists visible by creating many different types of innovative content, all available for free in both English and French on the AWARE website, as well as through organizing and participating in academic and non-academic events (symposiums, conferences, curation of art fairs). AWARE also supports contemporary artists by awarding two contemporary art prizes every year.
About Villa Albertine
Villa Albertine is a cultural institution that supports exchanges in arts and ideas between the United States, France, and beyond. With outposts in 10 US cities—Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, and Washington, DC—Villa Albertine presents innovative programming nationwide including 50+ customized residencies for international artists, thinkers, and cultural leaders across disciplines each year; a series of cross-cultural dialogues and events; a magazine and podcast; and grants, resources, and incubator programs for professionals in the cultural sphere.
