In conjunction with Carmen Argote: I won’t abandon you, I see you, we are safe, ICA LA presents IN PROCESS, a series of collaborative actions performed by Carmen Argote and her longtime collaborators.

Join us for a unique tour with Carmen Argote and curator Daniela Lieja Quintanar on the occasion of Argote’s solo exhibition at ICA LA, I won’t abandon you, I see you, we are safe. This program focuses on the collaborative process between Argote and Lieja Quintanar, featuring a project which will be presented off-site at Argote’s home in Boyle Heights.

This event begins at ICA LA and ends at Argote’s home in Boyle Heights. In the spirit of Argote’s daily walking practice, attendees have the option to join the artist on a walk from ICA LA to her home or meet at Argote’s home at 7pm. ICA LA staff will leave Argote’s home at 8pm to walk back to the museum.

Wine and light refreshments will be served.

RSVP required. Address provided upon RSVP.

Schedule:
5pm: Optional early arrival to see I won’t abandon you, I see you, we are safe at ICA LA
6pm: Option to walk from ICA LA to Carmen Argote’s home in Boyle Heights (approximately 1 hour)
7pm: Arrive at Carmen Argote’s home for a special tour led by Daniela Lieja Quintanar
8pm: Option to walk back to ICA LA with museum staff

Daniela Lieja Quintanar is a curator and researcher originally from Mexico City. Her curatorial practice takes inspiration from everyday life, spaces of political struggle, and communal forms of knowledge production. She is the Chief Curator and Deputy Director, Programs at REDCAT Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater. Recently, she curated Lisa Alvarado: Pulse Meridian Foliation for REDCAT. From 2016-2022, Lieja Quintanar served as the Chief Curator and Director of Programming at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). Some of her exhibitions at LACE included Intergalactix: against isolation/contra el aislamiento (2021), CAVERNOUS: Young Joon Kwak & Mutant Salon (2018) and Emory Douglas: Bold Visual Language (2018, co-curated with Essence Harden). In 2016, she coordinated Teresa Margolles’s La Sombra project for the Public Art Biennial CURRENT: LA Water. Lieja Quintanar was part of the curatorial team of the MexiCali Biennial (2018-19) and curatorial contributor to the PST: LA/LA exhibition, Below the Underground: Renegade Art and Action in 1990s Mexico at the Armory Center for the Arts (2017-18). In 2018, she was awarded the Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Grant. Lieja Quintanar has been part of the Los Angeles Tenants Union since its foundation, collaborating with the East Side local/Union de Vecinos.

Carmen Argote (b. 1981, Guadalajara, Mexico; lives and works in Los Angeles) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work often points to the body, class, and economic structures in relation to architecture and personal history. She received her MFA in 2007 from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she also received her BFA in 2004. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (2022); Primary, Nottingham (2021); Clockshop, Los Angeles (2020); New Museum, New York (2019); and PAOS GDL, Guadalajara (2019). Argote has been featured in group exhibitions at MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles (2022); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2021); SculptureCenter, New York (2019); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2018); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2017); and Ballroom Marfa (2017). She is the recipient of the Fellows of Contemporary Art Award (2020); the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2019); Artadia Los Angeles award (2019); an Artist Community Engagement Grant from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation (2015); and a California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2013). Argote’s work is in the collections of Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Argote is represented by Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, and is co-chair of the Artist Advisory Council at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.