Artist talk: Soledad Fátima Muñoz on art and memory as resistance

Join the Social Justice Initiative for an intimate conversation with artist Soledad Fátima Muñoz as she discusses her solo exhibition, We’re Not All Here / No Estamos Todes, confronting the violence of state-sponsored disappearance and abandonment.

Through sound, installation and poetic disruption, Muñoz explores the fragile tension between absence and presence, memory and forgetting and resistance and erasure. In this talk, she will delve into the personal and political currents that shape her practice, and the urgency of creating spaces for collective remembrance and dissent.

Guest speakers, via Zoom:

Soledad Fátima Muñoz, exhibiting artist, is a Canadian-Chilean artist and researcher whose practice centers on the political and historical dimensions of textiles. Raised in Rancagua, Chile, she creates large-scale weavings that explore memory, resistance and material storytelling. Muñoz holds a master’s degree in fine art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in fine art from Emily Carr University. She has received several awards, including the City of Vancouver Emerging Artist Award, the New Artists Society Merit Scholarship and the Textile Society of America’s Student Award.

Lola Ayisha Ogbara, exhibition curator and moderator, is a Nigerian American conceptual artist and cultural worker from Chicago. She is the former curator for the South Side Community Art Center and currently is the program director and gallery manager for the Social Justice Initiative.