Artist Olivia Hernaïz invites you to discover 'Art & My Career', a boardgame that addresses the question of the place of women in the world of contemporary art.

Hosted by the Women's Art Library
Open to all (inside and outside Goldmsiths), free
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Olivia Hernaïz is a Belgian-Spanish artist born in 1985. She first studied law in Belgium and Argentina. While practicing as a copyright lawyer, she completed a BFA at La Cambre, ENSAV in Brussels. She then moved to London for five years. In 2016, she obtained an MFA at Goldsmiths University of London. In 2022, she was a laureate from the two-years international postgraduate HISK programme in Gent, Belgium. Dialogue and narration are at the core of Olivia Hernaïz’ practice. Her work reanimates the world with mythologies that comment upon our capitalist and patriarchal society. She reinvents political and economic systems and indulges them with humorous, fictional and escapist perspectives for a different future. The tactility and aesthetics of Hernaiz’ drawings, videos and installations are an invitation to engage in conversation with others and make them familiar with her artistic research. In this participatory sense, she created « Art & My Career », a boardgame that approaches the status of women, and any person who identifies as a women, in the contemporary art world. Inspired by testimonies of cultural workers, the game offers seven careers and imagines many ventures, opportunities and encounters for them. Artist, Curator, Gallerist, Art Historian… each path is different but unavoidably touches upon female underrepresentation.

The game session is open to any person of any gender who feels concern about this question and who wishes to share their opinion in a safe space.

oliviahernaiz.com

Art & My Career intro video

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