Aram Moshayedi is a curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, where he recently co-curated (with Hamza Walker) Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only. Since joining the museum in 2013, he has organized projects by artists Avery Singer, Maria Hassabi, and Mario Garcia Torres, as well as All the Instruments Agree: An Exhibition or a Concert, a two-day program of live music and sound performed by visual artists. He has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues as well as the journals Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, Metropolis M, Parkett, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, and Bidouin, for which he is a contributing editor.
Forget Aesthetics: Mario García Torres in Conversation with Aram Moshayedi
Mexico-based artist Mario García Torres uses video, photography, and sound to explore the boundaries between memory and truth, reality and fiction, linking back to the history of Conceptual Art. Here, interviewed by curator Aram Moshayedi, he discusses his first US survey show at the Walker Art Center (closing February 17), featuring 45 works created over the past two decades, as well as a new augmented reality installation titled Illusion Brought Me Here.
