Spring Lecture Series: Jorge Otero-Pailos

Join us for 'The Ethics of Dust' by Jorge Otero-Pailos, a New York-based artist and preservationist best known for making monumental casts of historically charged buildings. Drawing from his formal training in architecture and preservation, Otero-Pailos' art practice deals with memory, culture, and transitions, and invites the viewer to consider buildings and functional objects as powerful agents of change. Many of his artworks are made by preserving parts of monuments deemed insignificant by others, whether it be dust, or entire building parts. In this way, his artworks render visible the invisible.

Otero-Pailos is currently the Director and Professor of Historic Preservation at the Columbia university Graduate School of Architecture in New York.

The Ethics Of Dust from Alex Emslie on Vimeo.

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