Argote, who will be in town for a residency at the Augustus Owen Foundation, will discuss recent work, including a High Line Plinth commission titled DINOSAUR - a colossal, hyper-realistic sculpture of a pigeon cast in aluminum, landed in New York City - and Wild Flowers, an immersive installation comprised of scattered cast bronze fragments of a figurative statue holding regional plants and flowers, currently on view at Dallas’s Katy Trail.

Argote is an artist and film director. Through his sculptures, installations, films, and interventions, he questions our intimate relationship with others, institutions, power, and belief systems. The artist develops strategies based on tenderness, affect, and humour through which he suggests critical approaches to dominant historical narratives and attempts to decentralise them. In his interventions on monuments, large-scale installations, and performances, Argote proposes new symbolic uses of public space.

About Daniel S. Palmer
Daniel S. Palmer is chief curator at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia. Previously, he was curator at Public Art Fund, New York, where he organized twenty exhibitions. He has also served as the Leon Levy Assistant Curator at the Jewish Museum and Curatorial Research Assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Palmer has curated numerous exhibitions independently and has contributed writing to many artist monographs, publications, and journals. He holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil in art history from the CUNY Graduate Center and a B.A. from Rutgers University.

About Iván Argote
Iván Argote (b. 1983, Bogotá, Colombia) lives and works in Paris, France. In 2024, he participated in the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia: Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, with an ambitious outdoor installation in the Giardini. Argote’s work is included in the permanent collections of numerous prestigious institutions worldwide, including the Guggenheim Museum (New York, US); Centre Pompidou (Paris, France); ASU Art Museum (Phoenix, US); Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (Miami, US); Colección de Arte del Banco de la República (Bogotá, Colombia); Kadist (San Francisco, US); and MACBA (Barcelona, Spain), among others. Argote is represented by Perrotin gallery.