Tuesday 20 June 2023, 7pm

Between Bridges
Adalbertstraße 43
10179 Berlin

As part of Juan Pablo Echeverri: Identidad Perdida, please join us next Tuesday, June 20 at 7pm for a talk by Tom Roach and the book launch of Echeverri's first monographic publication together with contributors Inti Guerrero and Wolfgang Tillmans.

The evening begins with Tom Roach’s talk Virtual Presents, Future Strangers: The Art of Recategorization in the Work of Juan Pablo Echeverri. He writes: "Juan Pablo Echeverri’s signature work, miss fotojapón, represents the self as a series of inaccurately replicated forms looping haphazardly between temporalities. Although the artist’s ability to transform his appearance is impressive, what I find most compelling is the multidimensional aloneness that pervades each portrait. Echeverri’s life work is an aesthetic experiment in antisociality born in a queer solitude: a solitude simultaneously self-imposed, socially determined, and existential. In this talk I will consider how Echeverri’s daily practice of self-exclusion creates a space not only for new aesthetic forms (various self-representations) but also for new forms of connection. The aesthetic, and ascetic, practice of self-isolation, experimentation, and documentation in miss fotojapón affords the artist an opportunity to speculate about new relational modes—indeed, a new ethics—in later work, such as the 2016 series futuroSEXtraños.”

Afterwards, we will celebrate Juan Pablo Echeverri’s eponymously titled first monographic publication that details the wide-ranging works presented in Identidad Perdida, a solo exhibition in two parts currently on view both at Between Bridges in Berlin and James Fuentes in New York. Inti Guerrero will share parts of his essay América, América, Marica, Mariconna, commissioned for the publication and merging a personal account with an in-depth survey of Echeverri’s prolific oeuvre. Concluding the evening, Wolfgang Tillmans will be in conversation with Tom Roach and Inti Guerrero.

The publication Juan Pablo Echeverri features a foreword by Wolfgang Tillmans, a new essay essay by Inti Guerrero and a reprinted interview by the artist.

Edited by Laura Brown and Marcela Echeverri
Published 2023 by James Fuentes Press
Designed in collaboration with Other Means, Brooklyn
ISBN 978-1-7365415-8-6
Paperback, Pp. 169
The publication can be purchased at Between Bridges.

Juan Pablo Echeverri, James Fuentes Press, 2023
Tom Roach is Professor of Philosophy and Sexuality Studies at Bryant University. His research is marked by a rigorous interdisciplinarity and informed by continental philosophy, queer theory, and cultural studies. He is the author of two monographs, both published by State University of New York Press: Screen Love: Queer Intimacies in the Grindr Era (2021) and Friendship as a Way of Life: Foucault, AIDS, and the Politics of Shared Estrangement (2012). In addition to the monographs, he has written three book chapters and eleven peer-reviewed essays. His work has been cited in over one-hundred-seventy-five peer-reviewed publications, and he has lectured at the Schwules Museum (2022), the Ars Electronica Festival (2021), various international conferences, and, on the heels of his 2018 TEDx talk, delivered a keynote address for Actemium Energy in Madrid, Spain (2019).

Inti Guerrero is co-Artistic Director of the 24th Biennale of Sydney (2024) and tutor of the Curatorial Studies postgraduate programme at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), Ghent. He was the artistic Director of BAP (Bellas Artes Projects) in the Philippines (2018–2022) and was the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator at Tate, London (2016–2020), curator of the 38th EVA International, Limerick (2018), and Artistic DirectorofTEOR/éTica, SanJose.

Juan Pablo Echeverri: Identidad Perdida
27 April–29 July 2023
Between Bridges
Adalbertstraße 43
10179 Berlin
Wednesday to Saturday 12–6pm

Juan Pablo Echeverri: Identidad Perdida
June 7–July 28, 2023
James Fuentes
55 Delancey Street
New York