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Gallery Talk: Mandy Cano Villalobos

Folger Theatre · Capitol Hill

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Essential for anyone interested in how contemporary artists engage with historical archives and environmental justice—particularly those who find traditional museum lectures too passive. Skip this if you want a polished presentation; this is thinking-in-real-time, and that's precisely the point.

Mandy Cano Villalobos brings her practice as a Folger Artist Fellow into direct conversation with visitors in this Capitol Hill gallery talk. The discussion centers on how early modern colonization continues to reverberate through present-day environmental and social injustices—a particularly resonant inquiry given the Folger's deep archival holdings on the colonial period. Rather than treating history as settled, Cano Villalobos examines the material and human legacies still unfolding. This is intimate scholarship: the kind of exchange where a thoughtful artist can complicate what visitors thought they understood about power, extraction, and consequence.

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