Description: "In January of 2020, Logan Center Exhibitions presented a suite of newly commissioned works across photography, sculpture, and sound by visual artist Harold Mendez. Building on his process-based approach, Mendez uses Pre-Columbian ritual and memorial artifacts as a point of departure, evoking their function as both signifiers for and extensions of the human body. Transforming his material through a sequence of processes that include various imaging techniques such as digital scanning and three-dimensional printing, the artist's project speaks to the poetic connection between material matter, site, and memory. The accompanying publication for the exhibition-the first substantial monograph dedicated to his work-will be developed in close collaboration with the artist. Published by Logan Center Exhibitions, the publication features a foreword by director and curator Yesomi Umolu; a major contextualizing essay by scholar and curator Candice Hopkins; an interview with the artist; and a text by poet J. Michael Martinez. The resulting 124-page monograph will also include installation images from the exhibition at Logan Center Gallery"--
Brief description:
Candice Hopkins is senior curator of the 2019 Toronto Biennial of Art; co-curator of the 2018 SITE Santa Fe biennial, Casa Tomada; and part of the curatorial team for Documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel, Germany. She also co-curated the major exhibitions Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years, various venues; and the 2014 SITElines biennial, Unsettled Landscapes, Santa Fe. Her writing has been published widely; recent essays and presentations include "Outlawed Social Life" for South as a State of Mind magazine and Sounding the Margins: A Choir of Minor Voices, Small Projects, Tromsø, Norway. She has lectured internationally, including at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Tate Modern, Dak'Art: African Contemporary Art Biennale, Artists Space, Tate Britain, and the University of British Columbia. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art and the Foundation Prince Pierre de Monaco's 2016 Prix pour un essai critique sur l'art contemporain. She is a citizen of the Carcross/Tagish First Nation.