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San Francisco Art Institute (Main Campus)

February 15 - February 15, 2013

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800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94133
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Lecture | Labor by Sergio de la Torre Sergio de la Torre, This is Not in Spanish, 2011 Neon; 12 x 168 inches Courtesy of the Kadist Foundation
Sergio de la Torre works with and documents the manifold ways citizens reinvent themselves in the cities they inhabit, examining the site-specific strategies that individuals employ in moving “in and out of modernity.” Through a range of media (including video documentation, photography, posters, billboards, public video projections, and installations), his work invokes collaborations with his subjects and invites both intimate and critical reflections on topics related to housing, immigration, and labor. De la Torre works with individuals from marginalized sectors of the cities in which he develops his projects, including factory workers in Tijuana, shoeshine boys in Mexico City, undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and evicted families in Oakland. Lecture Hall San Francisco Art Institute 800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94133