Lara Fresko Madra Published in the Los Angeles Review of Books
Professor Lara Fresko Madra.
Assistant Professor and CCS Luma Fellow Lara Fresko Madra published an essay on research-based artist Hande Sever’s solo exhibition at REDCAT in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Take off your eyes consisted of two collections from 2023 and 2025 that combine text and images Sever found in collections in Southern California, including German photography in the Ottoman Empire and archival footage of Ronald Reagan and former Turkish president Kenan Evren. “[These] photographs variously juxtapose scenes of deterioration, overgrowth, development, and progress,” Madra writes. “The tension born out of contrast, within a single image or between the two sets of photographs, articulates not only what is lost [but also] what covered up or replaced that loss.”
The Center for Curatorial Studies is an intensive course of study in the history of contemporary art, criticism, and exhibition making. The graduate program provides extensive practical experience in exhibition-making within a professional museum setting. The faculty include curators, scholars, writers, art historians, and other professionals committed to innovation in the arts.
Post Date: 12-02-2025
The Center for Curatorial Studies is an intensive course of study in the history of contemporary art, criticism, and exhibition making. The graduate program provides extensive practical experience in exhibition-making within a professional museum setting. The faculty include curators, scholars, writers, art historians, and other professionals committed to innovation in the arts.
Post Date: 12-02-2025