Continuing CALA’s commitment to engaging audiences through dynamic virtual programming, CALA Presenta > Charlas is a series of conversations between Contemporary U.S. Latinx and Latin American artists with Executive Director and Curator Alana Hernandez. The conversation series gives viewers the opportunity to visit artists’ studios and hear more about their practice through informal conversations. Emphasizing CALA’s commitment to U.S. Latinx and artists in Latin America, these artist conversations explore the dynamism that exists within the Latinx and Latin American art communities. Featuring artists that span geographic locations in and outside of the United States, CALA Presenta > Charlas are presented with each new artist resident in person and streamed via Instagram Live.  

Luis Rivera Jiménez (1997), Dominican and Puerto Rican. He is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher who works with physical and digital materials to create spaces and experiences for possible reconfigurations of western epistemologies and racial structures. His artistic practice takes “digital global society” as a starting point and borrows language and forms from contemporary art, anarchist political thought, psychoanalysis, and the Caribbean quotidian. This all to post questions within the dynamics of representation, hierarchies, collaboration, context, and "poor" materialities and how to attune them to contemporary material, digital and racial conditions.