Celeste Olalquiaga

Indepedent Scholar

02/04/2019 - 6/2/2019

Celeste Olalquiaga is a cultural historian dedicated to the contradictions and leftovers of modernity. Her books, Megalopolis (1992) and The Artificial Kingdom (1998), have been translated to several languages and she is the recipient of Guggenheim and Rockefeller awards. In 2013 she founded Proyecto Helicoide, dedicated to rescuing the cultural memory of a futuristic ruin in Caracas, producing exhibitions there and in NYC and co-editing Downward Spiral: El Helicoide’s Descent from Mall to Prison (2018). At The Clark, she will work on a re-reading of the myth of Medusa that focuses on its origins in the Gorgon and the evil eye.