Installation view of Chris Dougnac: Temple, Rock, Cloud. Photo by: Pedro Wazzan, 2022.
Artist Talk + Performance: Temple, Rock, Cloud
Join us for an artist talk and performance to celebrate the closing of Chris Dougnac’s exhibition Temple, Rock, Cloud.
Presented as an informal conversational lecture between Dougnac and the Dean of the Honors College at Florida International University, Dr. Juan Carlos Espinosa, the discussion will address a range of topics including the relationship between sound and color, music and art, performance and everyday life as they pertain to the exhibition.
The talk is followed by an interactive performance, where guests will be invited to witness the de-installation of the works on view and join in a procession as they make their way back to the artist’s studio.
Spaces are limited. Please RSVP to attend.
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Please enter Bakehouse through the main entrance in the red building facing 32nd Street. Free parking is available.
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About the exhibition
In Temple, Rock, Cloud, interdisciplinary artist Chris Dougnac reimagines Gallery 825 in the Louvre Museum, which houses select “masterpieces” by French Baroque artist Nicolas Poussin, as a ready-made work of art. For the exhibition, Dougnac meditates on chroma key green screen paint, commonly used in film and TV to isolate a subject from their background, and its implications as a technological medium. Through installation, painting, sound sculpture, and performance, Dougnac transforms the gallery into an immersive site that renders the viewer, wittingly or otherwise, into the subject of an indeterminate and undefined scene.
About the artist
Chris Dougnac (b. 1994, Miami) is a first-generation Cuban-American artist living and working in Miami, FL. In 2016, they received a BFA in Art and a minor in Art History from Florida International University. Since 2018, Dougnac has worked as the Archivist and Graphic Designer at the de la Cruz Collection in Miami, FL, where they work closely with collectors Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz to manage the collection database, social media, and design and installation of all exhibitions. They have been a resident artist at Bakehouse Art Complex since 2019.
About Juan Carlos Espinosa
Juan Carlos Espinosa is the Dean and Faculty Fellow of the Honors College at Florida International University. He is a political scientist with degrees from the University of Miami and Florida State University. His main research interests include culture, conflict, and collective identity.
Espinosa is also a sound artist who has written over fifty solo, chamber, choral, and electro-acoustic pieces. His work is informed by his obsession with the withering of human and cultural memory, as well as by his anxiety about the chemical and organic changes that constantly weave fiction and false memories into our lives.
Espinosa enjoys working with other artists to create new work, particularly choreographers such as Heather Maloney and Jimmy Gamonet de los Heros, theater director Jose Manuel Dominguez, filmmaker Juan Carlos Zaldivar, and visual artist Xavier Cortada with whom he has shared numerous residencies (e.g., Antarctica, Drenthe, and Hubbard). Espinosa created numerous soundscapes, film scores, and live pieces for Cortada.