Into the Registry: An Artist Member and Community Space (March 2022)

This bi-monthly series invites our community of artists, art lovers, AIDS activists, and beyond to share space with and explore both past and recent artwork from Visual AIDS' Artist Members.

The full event will be accessible to both English and Spanish speakers through simultaneous interpretation. El evento completo será accesible tanto para hablantes de inglés como de español a través de interpretación simultánea. Haga click aquí para leer sobre el evento en español.

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In the first half of the program a small cohort of Artist Members will share recently created artworks with the public. This month we will hear from photographer Sean Black and painter and sculptor Phyllis Sanfiorenzo.

In the second half of the program, the curator of our current web gallery will elaborate on the inspiration informing their selection of artworks from our Artist+ Registry, a database of work by artists living with HIV, and those who are no longer with us. The curator will be joined by several other artists, creatives, and thinkers to discuss relevant themes in the web gallery.

For this second iteration of the series, Julieta Obiols will lead a conversation connected to her current web gallery, IN-VIH-SIBLE WOUNDS. She will be joined by artist and writer Camila Arce and activist and journalist Marta Dillon. Together they will discuss the unique challenges facing women living with HIV today. Camila specifically will discuss the experiences of verticales, those who were born with HIV or who seroconverted through breastfeeding. Marta will share about her own lived experience with HIV and also the weekly feature she created in the Argentinian newspaper Pagina 12 that gave voices to women living with HIV for over 10 years.

Bios:

Julieta Obiols is a Psychologist and PhD in Community Mental Health. She was born in Buenos Aires and currently lives in Barcelona. In Argentina, she was a professor at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Buenos Aires and worked at the National Reference Center for AIDS. With a scholarship from the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research, she obtained her PhD with a thesis on care for women living through motherhood with HIV.

In 2016, she was selected for the Independent Studies Program of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA), where she participated in multiple exhibitions, research and programs. She wrote the script for the short film Female Disappearance Syndrome, together with its director Lucía Egaña, selected by Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2020. Her project InVIHsible: women in the imaginary of AIDS was awarded a scholarship by the Government of Catalonia and in 2021 she did research residences at the Study Centre of the MACBA and at the non-governmental organization Sida Studi.

Many of her published articles in journals and books are available here.

Camila Arce is an artivista from Rosario, Argentina who has been living with HIV since she was born 27 years ago. She writes about her daily life and publishes poetry and social, political, and economic commentary @sidiosa. Her work is committed to the needs and realities of women living with HIV and above all the experiences of verticales. She is a fervent advocate for the release of drug patents and a HIV cure.

Marta Dillon, an author and Argentine journalist, began her journalistic career when she was barely 20 years old through the pages of the newspaper Sur, and since then she has worked for media such as Rolling Stone, El desmadre, National Geographic, Planeta Urbano, Las 12 , in Página /12 , or in the LGTBQ supplement , of which she was the creator. Dillon is known for her activism in favor of the gay movement, she is the author of several documentaries, and her journalistic work has earned her awards such as that of the Argentine Women's Union. Dillon has published several books and writings, including Vivir con virus, in which she recounts her own experience as a carrier of HIV and as a lesbian, mother and wife.