CHARLA: WE OWN IT (with Sandra Oviedo aka Colectivo Multipolar and Martín Sorrondeguy)

The proposed CHARLA Is a 45 minute video conversation between Diana Solís, Sandra Oviedo aka ColectivoMultipolar, Martin Sorrondeguy. The discussion focuses on the photographic work and histories of three queer Chicago-based photographers. The conversation will talk about the intersections of working within the larger Latinx and specific queer and punk communities. Their process as photographers and visual activism, documentary work and current projects.

Bio

Diana Solís is a Mexican born, Chicago-based visual artist, photographer, and educator whose work includes  photography, painting, illustration, printmaking, comics, public murals and installation. Inspired by Mexican and Chicano culture, immigration, memory, cautionary tales, oral and personal histories and queer identities, and narratives. Her work examines notions of place, identity and belonging. Hybridization and the convergence between humans and nature are recurring themes in her paintings and illustrations. She is known for her documentary photography on women’s lives, feminist, gay and lesbian movements in the 80’s in Chicago and Mexico city. Solis’ two-year photographic project and book Luz: Seeing the Space Between Us is about her return to photography which reflects the resilience and complexity of her home community of Pilsen in Chicago. The book will be published in the summer of 2022.  

Solís holds a BFA in photography from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Solis has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally including at the National Museum of Mexican Art where her work is part of the permanent collection, DePaul Art Museum, LatinXAmerican exhibition and is also part of the permanent collection; Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares, Toluca, Mexico; Centre Cívic Barceloneta, Barcelona, Spain. Central to Solís’s practice is her commitment to being a teaching artist and sharing her knowledge and process in collaboration with youth, immigrant families, and adults to engage and support them in creating art from their point of view.