'The Museum Of Multidimensional Mutant Maps' Artist Presentation

Edgar Fabián Frías' Solo Exhibition "The Museum Of Multidimensional Mutant Maps"
PRS proudly presents "The Museum of Multidimensional Mutant Maps," a solo exhibition featuring bold new works by interdisciplinary artist Edgar Fabián Frías. On view January 13 through February 24, 2024, this exhibition transforms the gallery into an immersive museum experience reexamining maps through the lens of imagination, reflection, and reinvention.
Inspired by the Nierika, a Wixárika technology, Frías has created interactive installations, paintings, sculptures, prints, and videos to help guide, confuse, and connect with visitors to this museum. These new artworks are arranged throughout thematic wings of the museum, each exploring different facets of maps.
By interweaving indigenous, psychedelic, punk, and futurist influences, Frías has constructed a museum at once critical, visionary and whimsical. Their mutant maps capture traces of haunted pasts, possible presents and emergent futures - if we dare to reorient our perspectives. Ultimately, this exhibition serves as a testament to the transformative power of indigenous technologies and art practices to prompt reflection, spark imagination and manifest reinvention.
Come get lost and found again in the prismatic journey of Edgar Fabián Frías' Museum of Multidimensional Mutant Maps.
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Edgar Fabián Frías works in installation, photography, video art, sound, sculpture, printed textiles, GIFs, performance, social practice, and community organizing, among other forms. Frías is Wixárika and their family is from Mexico, though they have lived in the United States for most of their life. Their art addresses historical legacies and acts of resistance, resiliency, and radical imagination within the context of Indigenous Futurism, spirituality, play, pedagogy, animism, and queer aesthetics. Weaving together the traditional and ancestral with the contemporaneous and emergent.
Born in East Los Angeles in 1983, Frías received dual BA degrees in Psychology and Studio Art from UC, Riverside. In 2013, they received an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, with an emphasis on Interpersonal Neurobiology and Somatic Psychotherapy. Frías received their MFA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley in 2022.
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Their work has been exhibited internationally, including the Vincent Price Art Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Oregon Contemporary, MOCA Jacksonville, Project Space Festival Juárez, and ArtBo, among others. Their work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Taschen, Bustle, Los Angeles Times, Slate, CVLT Nation, Terremoto, Hyperallergic, and other publications.
edgarfabianfrias.org // @edgarfabianfrias
​Elizabeth (Liz) T. Vazquez is an artist, writer and filmmaker from Los Angeles. They received their BA in Film Production at the Arts University Bournemouth (U.K.) after studying cultural anthropology and philosophy at Moorpark College. While working at various art institutions and exhibiting work in Los Angeles, they nourished their academic curiosity at the Philosophical Research Society. There, began to organize artist-led events before continuing their studies at the American Film Institute Conservatory where they received an MFA in Screenwriting.
Liz's work extends from video art to drawing, assemblage, photography and narrative filmmaking. Their projects often incorporate off-beat relationships between text and image while exploring "otherness.” They believe in play and playfulness as radical acts towards critiquing and ultimately dismantling stifling social constructions rooted in various forms of violence.
​etvazquez.com // @stripmalldreams
On view January 13th - February 24, 2024
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