Art Talk: María José Crespo & Rosela del Bosque

Join us for a dialogue between artist María José Crespo and curator Rosela del Bosque in regards to Screen Memories currently on view at MXCL BNL LAB. This free program invites the attendees to explore the exhibition through topics related to the border region, including surveillance assets and the otherworldly data centers that hold them.

If you follow a ghost in a border city, where does it lead you? In Screen Memories, the answer is: to a data center.

María José Crespo (b.1991) completed a BA in Fine Art at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in Tijuana and a MA in Fine Art at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. Her research looks into the porous space between territory, language, limits, and the body, and how this space can be understood by extending the way they relate to each other as gestures in different materialities. By questioning how she inhabits certain boundaries as a woman, she is interested in studying remains and traces
that administrative powers leave behind in unclear territories.

Rosela del Bosque (Mexicali, 1997) is a curator, art historian, and professor. Her work explores ways of addressing ecological loss and degradation mediated by process-oriented artistic research, archives, and curatorial practice. She holds a BA in ArtHistory from Universidad de las Américas Puebla and a Master of Advanced Studies in Curating from Zurich University of the Arts. She currently serves as Associate Curator at Museo Jumex in Mexico City. Additionally, she is a curator at Planta Libre (Mexicali) and part of the Archivo Familiar del Río Colorado collaborative project.

Alongside curator Daniela Lieja Quintanar, she is co-curating the mid-career survey exhibition Ingrid Hernández, 20 años de arte under construction to be presented at Centro Cultural Tijuana. Additionally, she is a professor at the School of Arts, Mexicali UABC, and assistant curator of the next MexiCali Biennial edition PARA/normal Borders.