Film Screening & Conversation: Tactics for Remembering

Join us for a special screening of a short documentary developed in conjunction with the exhibition . The documentary features exhibiting artists Amalia Caputo, Reynier Leyva Novo, and Lisu Vega discussing their work. The screening will be followed by a conversation between guest curator Fabiola R. Delgado and panelists Ricardo Betancourt (film director) and Luis Vasquez La Roche (artist and professor), whose practices engage with themes of memory, migration, and cultural continuity.

The post-screening conversation will delve into how artistic practices can sustain vulnerable histories and activate remembrance across distance and time.

ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS

Fabiola R. Delgado
Fabiola R. Delgado (b. Cabimas, Venezuela 1990) is an independent curator and creative producer based in Washington DC. A former Human Rights lawyer and political asylum seeker from Venezuela, she brings a deeply personal lens to her work, and channels her commitment to justice through artistic and cultural experiences. Recognizing storytelling as the essence of her practice, she develops socially engaged projects that recenter perspectives and foster intergenerational creative learning. Her work spans exhibitions, scholarship, editorial projects, and public programming for all ages.

R. Delgado is a recipient of the first National Leaders of Color Fellowship (a collaborative program from the six U.S. Regional Arts Organizations,) as well as a Fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Her practice bridges formal and alternative art spaces, working with a wide range of institutions––from major museums like the Hirshhorn, National Museum of American History, Brooklyn Museum, and Smart Museum of Art, to experimental and public art initiatives including Washington Project for the Arts, Times Square Arts, Transformer, apexart, Foggy Bottom Biennial, and the FUNDRED Project by MacArthur “Genius” Mel Chin. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, BmoreArt Magazine, Artishock Magazine, Arte al Día, and Intervenxions by The Latinx Project at NYU, among other publications.

Ricardo Betancourt
NOLA grown, Caracas born. Ricardo Betancourt is a Venezuelan-born director, producer, and visual artist crafting visually striking, human-centered stories across film, music videos, commercials, and paintings. His work critically reflects on the Latin American diaspora and the often-invisible labor of America’s working class.

Betancourt’s projects have received support from the Sundance Institute; he’s an Emerging Voices fellow, as well as The Gotham's Branded Storyteller To Watch. He also serves on the board of Minorities in Film. His commercial work and music video collaborations include STARZ, Capitol Records, Universal Music Group, 88rising, and Honda.

Betancourt is currently touring his hybrid short film SUDAKAS and developing his first narrative feature REPARTIDORES, about food delivery workers in the US.

Luis Vasquez La Roche
Luis Vasquez La Roche is an artist and scholar based between Trinidad and Tobago and Virginia. They earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree from Virginia Commonwealth University. Their practice engages with the enduring legacies of the transatlantic slave trade as they manifest in contemporary society.

Their work has been exhibited and performed at numerous institutions, including Field Projects (New York), Deakin University (Australia), La Vulcanizadora (Colombia), Black Ground (Colombia), Second Street Gallery (Virginia), Alice Yard (Trinidad), the University of Chicago (Illinois), LACE (California), AIR Gallery (New York), The Carr Center (Michigan), the Institute of Contemporary Art (Virginia), The Shed (New York), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico), Rhode Island School of Design (Rhode Island), Hervey Bay Regional Gallery (Australia), The Momentary (Arkansas), and Documenta Fifteen (Germany).

They have participated in artist residencies at OAZO AIR (Netherlands), Beta Local's Itinerant Seminar (Puerto Rico), Mare Residency (Puerto Rico), Mar de Islas Performance Encounter (Puerto Rico), Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Nebraska), VisArts (Virginia), InSitu Policulture Commons (Vermont), FIAP (Martinique), and an upcoming residency at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia. Currently, they serve as an Assistant Professor at George Mason University.

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