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Felix Gonzalez-Torres, "Untitled" (A Corner of Baci), 1990, endless supply of Baci chocolates individually wrapped in silver foil, ideal weight: 42 lbs., dimensions variable. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, purchased with funds provided by the Ruth and Jake Bloom Young Artist Fund.
Exhibition
Open House: Gala Porras-Kim
27 Oct 2019 – 11 May 2020
Regular hours
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Monday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:00
Address
- 250 South Grand Avenue
- Los Angeles
California - 90012
- United States
About
Beginning in spring 2019, MOCA will dedicate its downtown locations to multiple exhibitions celebrating the museum’s 40th anniversary and its permanent collection. Each location will feature special exhibitions highlighting different themes and stories found within the institution’s permanent collection of more than 7,000 objects. As part of this celebration, MOCA will debut a new ongoing series of exhibitions titled Open House. For the first time in its history, MOCA invites Los Angeles-based artists to organize exhibitions drawn from the museum’s extensive collection of objects. The artists selected will work together with MOCA curators to explore how the museum’s permanent collection can continue to serve, educate, inform, represent, and delight the diverse and extensive community of artists in Southern California. Open House will give visitors a chance to see the depth and breadth of MOCA’s collection focused through the unique lens provided by the community of artists that it serves.
The second iteration of this exhibition series will be Open House: Gala Porras-Kim. Gala Porras-Kim’s practice explores how the history of art is built from remnants and fragments of information from the past. More specifically, she explores how our indexes or records are often flawed or willfully misdirected, and how these gaps and lapses in human knowledge have supported colonialist endeavors and global inequality. For her exhibition at MOCA, Porras-Kim seeks to question the almost-contradictory idea of a contemporary permanent collection. To do so, she has sought out artworks that oppose the idea that a museum’s permanent collection is a collection of immutable objects frozen in time. Instead, she will bring together artworks that are transitory, ephemeral, and even created to expire.
Open House: Gala Porras-Kim is organized by Gala Porras-Kim and Bryan Barcena, Assistant Curator and Manager of Publications, with Karlyn Olvido, Curatorial Assistant, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
