Adela Goldbard

Adela Goldbard is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who believes in the potential of art to generate critical thinking and social transformation. Her work questions the politics of memory —who wants whom to remember what and why— by suspecting official narratives, archeological preservation, state-sanctioned celebrations, and mass media. Her research-based practice examines how radical community performances, rituals and reenactments are means to contest and subvert physical, ideological and structural violence. She is especially interested in how destruction can become a ritual, a statement, a metaphor, a way of remembering and a form of disobedience. Goldbard is Assistant Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. She holds an MFA as a Full Merit Fellow in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in Hispanic Language and Literature from the National University of Mexico. Originally from Mexico City, she lives and works in the US and Mexico.