Leonardo Madriz. Can't Forget, Dying to Know.

About

In Can’t Forget, Dying to Know, the first solo exhibition by Leonardo Madriz, there’s a notion that lineage is mandatory but holding on is a choice––stories for the sake of home. A letter to the artist’s late father, presented as an expanded cinema installation, grapples with loss and entanglements of blood, place, and time. Assemblages of home remnants and photo transfers on motor-oil stained cardboard accompany the letter, asserting that history is personal, grief is redemptive, and belonging is a story.

Leo Madriz (b.1987, Louisiana) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NewYork. He holds an MFA from CUNY Hunter College (NY, 2021) and a BFA from Louisiana State University (2010). Can’t Forget, Dying to Know at NARS Foundation (2023) is the artist’s first solo exhibition. Recent group exhibitions include CURRENTS New Media Festival 2022: Circuits, Parallel Studios (Santa Fe, 2022); Light and Shadow, Longwood Gallery & BCA (NY 2022); Lucky to Be Here, Bronx Council on the Arts (NY, 2021); Heaven, 205 Hudson Street Gallery (NY, 2021); Orphans of Painting II, Ethan Cohen KuBe (NY, 2019); and Waiting for the Garden of Eden, White Box Gallery (NY, 2019). His work has been featured by Hyperallergic and in a spotlight by Hauser & Wirth.

Screenings:
February 3, 6:30 pm
February 9, 6:30pm
February 22, 6:30pm