Drawing on the powerful parallels between TX24 Artists Veronica Ibargüengoitia and Paloma Mayorga practices, TX24 Curatorial Assistant, Areli Navarro Magallón, will moderate an artist talk exploring two exhibitions opening this Saturday, December 14 at Sawyer Yards.

The Gorgeous Flowers Have a Smell is a solo installation by Mexican American artist  Paloma Mayorga. It is composed of wax doll figurines embedded with baby’s breath flowers, paired with printed online articles documenting the global impact of one particular flower company.

Veronica Ibargüengoitia is a Mexican artist in The Last Sky: Thermals and Thresholds, whose installation "UNTITLED” is comprised of 180 pages with the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights text and cited Art 13, 14, and 15 photocopied over and over until the text disappeared. On the back is a list of 6,700 names and ages of people from Gaza killed in the time elapsed from October 8-25, 2023. 

Join us to learn about these artists and their practices followed by a guided tour of more Texas Biennial exhibitions around campus.