Artist Jimena Sarno speaks with guest curator Alexandra Foradas about her first solo museum exhibition, Rhapsody. They will discuss how Sarno engages contemporary and traditional craft practices and over 20 collaborators to illuminate how sharing time, space, and resources can deepen solidarity within a global context of extreme violence, fragmentation, and destruction.

About the Exhibition:
Jimena Sarno engages craft traditions to imagine a future built on values of collectivity, reconfiguration, and repair. For Rhapsody, the title of the exhibition and the installation at its core, Sarno collaborated with artists, teachers, and makers, most of whom are from the Global South, combining filmmaking, sound, and sculpture with contemporary and traditional craft practices. Within a global context of extreme violence, fragmentation, and destruction, the artists share time, space, and resources to deepen solidarity through making, repairing, and the collective production of alternative forms of knowledge. Sarno’s project is framed as an alternative to Modernism’s utilization of cultural production as a tool to imagine utopian futures while reinforcing global systems of coloniality. The central installation features a group of objects made using techniques — including weaving, felting, woodworking, and pottery — that rely on bodies of knowledge passed from maker to maker. These objects are tools — at once utilitarian and utopian — designed for a hoped-for, not-so-distant future built on solidarity and mutual care.

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About the Speakers:
Jimena Sarno is an interdisciplinary artist and educator born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and based in Los Angeles. With a focus on the sensorial and affective experiences shaped by political subjecthood, she works across a range of media including installation, sound, video, text, and sculpture. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at MASS MoCA (Kissing through a Curtain, 2020); REDCAT, Los Angeles; Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, California; Clockshop, Los Angeles; 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica; LACE, Los Angeles; Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California; Mistake Room, Los Angeles; Human Resources, Los Angeles; PØST, Los Angeles; UCI Contemporary Art Center, Irvine, California; Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, California; Control Room, Los Angeles; San Diego Art Institute; Luminary, St. Louis, Missouri; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea de Santiago De Compostela, Spain; among others. Her work has been supported by the California Arts Council Individual Fellowship, the California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists, the Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant, and she is 2023–24 Lucas Artist Fellow in Visual Arts at Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, California.

Alexandra Foradas is a curator and art historian based in New York, NY. She specializes in modern and contemporary art, with particular interests in systems of meaning-making, intersections of museums and performance, and technologies of knowledge transmission. Foradas was recently named Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Princeton University Art Museum. Previously, while Curator at MASS MoCA, she organized solo exhibitions by Osman Khan (2024; catalogue 2025), EJ Hill (2022; monograph 2025), Jason Moran (2022), Taryn Simon (2018, 2021), and Jenny Holzer (2017, 2019), among others, and group exhibitions including Like Magic (2023), Kissing through a Curtain (2020; catalogue 2021), and Bibliothecaphilia (2015). She has taught at Hunter College and RISD, and holds an MA from Williams College.