Gala Porras-Kim Makes Art of Interrogation
b'"When I look at the law and also museum policy, it\\u2019s just so close to conceptual art making. You have a lot of material and you\\u2019re just trying to define how it lives in the world, except with the law, everybody agrees. With conceptual art, you have to convince people to believe in it."\\n\\n\\n\\nGala Porras-Kim is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is both conceptually rigorous and visually compelling. Born in Bogot\\xe1 and based in Los Angeles, Porras-Kim creates art that explores the relationship between historical objects and the institutions that collect and display them. From writing letters questioning how museums handle artifacts to creating sculptures that honor the spiritual lives of antiquities, Porras-Kim\\u2019s practice is part concept, part material manifestation.\\n\\n\\n\\nThe artist\\u2019s current exhibition, Precipitation for an Arid Landscape, focuses on the Peabody Museum\\u2019s collection of thousands of artifacts originally found in a giant sinkhole: the Sacred Cenote at Chich\\xe9n Itz\\xe1 on Mexico\\u2019s Yucat\\xe1n Peninsula. The exhibition is one in a series of solo shows at the Amant Foundation in Brooklyn, Gasworks in London, and the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis. The work is based partly on research Porras-Kim carried out while she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard and an artist in residence at the Getty Research Institute.\\n\\n\\n\\nIn this episode, Porras-Kim muses about rummaging through museum archives, the rights of mummies, and potlucks in the Pink Palace.\\n\\n\\n\\nFor images, transcripts, and more, visit https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/podcast-gala-porras-kim-makes-art-of-interrogation/ or http://www.getty.edu/podcasts\\n\\n\\n\\nTo learn more about Porras-Kim, visit\\nhttps://blogs.getty.edu/iris/meet-the-getty-research-institutes-newest-artist-in-residence/\\n\\n\\n\\nTo learn more about Precipitation for an Arid Landscape, visit https://www.amant.org/exhibitions/4-gala-porras-kim-precipitation-for-an-arid-landscape'