Carmen Amengual, A Non-Coincidental Mirror

Carmen Amengual is an interdisciplinary artist, independent researcher, and filmmaker from Argentina, now based in Los Angeles. Her work explores the emergence of collective imaginaries, identity formations, and conceptions of time and history that shape political imagination. She has presented her projects in various formats, both nationally and internationally, with exhibitions at Artist Space (New York), Human Resources and 2220 Art & Archives (Los Angeles), Table (Chicago), Biquini Wax EPS (Mexico City), and Museo Centenario (Buenos Aires). Her work has also been featured in conferences such as Film Undone: Elements for a Latent Cinema (Silent Green / Kino Arsenal, Berlin) and Film Act: Third Cinema and Its Legacies (American University in Cairo) and in screenings across the US and abroad. A Non-Coincidental Mirror is her first solo institutional exhibition in the US. Amengual graduated in Comparative Literature from the University of Buenos Aires and holds an MFA in Visual Arts from the California Institute of the Arts. She is a 2021–2022 Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Studio Program fellow, a 2022–2024 Vera List Center for Art and Politics Fellow, a 2023 and 2024 Graham Foundation grantee, and a 2024 Creative Capital awardee.

Soyoung Yoon is Director of Parsons Fine Arts MFA at Parsons School of Design and Assistant Professor of Art History & Visual Studies at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School. Yoon received her PhD from Stanford University and holds a BA from Seoul National University; she was also a Faculty at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (ISP) till 2023. Yoon’s research offers a sustained inquiry into the politics of mobility and rhetorics of testimony, witnessing, and storytelling in relation to the moving image. Yoon is especially attentive to how art participates in capital’s “expropriation of the senses”: the creation of productive and unproductive bodies, of new capacities and incapacities of perception and experience. Yoon is currently in the process of completing two monographs: Walkie Talkie on the rise of cinéma vérité amid anti-colonial struggles, new techniques of policing, and the new technological capacity for sync sound; and TV Buddhas on theories of suture and narrative, surveillance, and the body politic. A new book on the mattress as an artistic motif, A Mattress is Not a Bed, is in production.