LACA

Los Angeles Contemporary Archive is excited to present The Beautician, a new body of watercolor paintings on paper by Melissa Huddleston. Huddleston's paintings depict objects from the Harald Szeemann archive, housed at the Getty Research Institute, where she is employed in the conservation department. She has focused specifically on materials related to Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us, an exhibition curated by Szeemann held in his former apartment in Bern, Switzerland in 1974. 

All That is Solid Melts into Data
​Screening: Thursday March 17 & Friday March 18, 8pm

Thursday’s screening will be followed with a panel discussion and Q&A with filmmaker, Ryan S Jeffery and LACA archivist Clarice De Veyra moderated by Travis Diehl.

Nostalgia for the Present: Two Years of LACA
Curated by Eli Diner

Opening Saturday, March 12, 7-9pm 

“The first problems arose when the first books arrived"

Memory is in Progress

I walked where the mass graves had been uncovered and then re-covered. You could tell where the bodies had been dug up; the yellow dirt had a slight shift and change in color.  That summer in Estepar they recovered the bones of 40 political prisoners that where shot by Franco’s Civil Guard as they were under the illusion that they being freed from prison.  Near the onset of the Spanish Civil War, on September 29 and 30, 1936 the freed men were all taken to this field and shot. There are about 700 more bodies that were executed and dumped out here.  My grandmother thinks Sotero her uncle is there.