locations: tijuana, tecate, mexico city & la
From Michelle Gamaker Williams’s The Bang Straws (2021)
Pastor Projects Launches New Art Film Showcase in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, 26/01/2023
In collaboration with El Nopal Press, Pastor Projects launches a new permanent showcase for high-profile and emerging, cutting-edge contemporary art film makers in Downtown, LA.
A thrilling aspect of the new permanent art film showcase in Los Angeles is the great opportunity for Pastor Projects to explore new collaborations and alliances by occasionally reaching out and inviting artists/curators/collaborators to guest-curate Pastor Projects’s video showcase in at The Nopal Press in Los Angeles.
With more than 20 years on 109 W 5th Street, this storied space enables Pastor Projects to present regular contemporary art film programming. The unique opportunity is a result of a new collaboration with owner and master printmaker, Francesco Siqueiros. Like Pastor Projects, Francesco Siqueiros also holds big emotional, creative and intellectual stakes in Mexico. Francesco Siqueiros was born in Mexicali and proclaims to still have “unfinished business” in the Mexican bordertown and his Nopal Press is, much like Pastor Projects, is to a great extent fuelled by a continuing interest in the liminal space of the borderland.
The curation profile continues Pastor Projects’s consistently eccentric eclecticism and is further evidence of the gallery’s commitment to explore new and intrigueing juxtapositions as a part of Pastor Project’s larger progressive vision to carve out new space for a currently retreating cosmopolitanism and give new life to its values and principles.
The vision is sustained by the ambition to ultimately reconfigure the field of contemporary art and beyond. With this emphasis on space and geography, Pastor Projects is propelling (and is in turned propelled by) concepts related to spatial dimensions and presently overlooked philosophers of space like French philosoper Henri Lefebvre and such works as his epononymous 1974 title, The Production of Space/La Production de l’espace.
Though presently unfashionable in contemporary critical theory, we believe the dimension of space to be the primary determinant of all human culture. To ignore this is to shirk responsibility and to deliberately slide several rungs down the ladder of human civilization.