A talk by 2021–2022 St. Elmo Artist Residency Fellow Armando Cortés, exploring the role of storytelling in his practice.
Through sculpture and performance, Cortés’ propagation of story takes the form of myth-building. This myth-making challenges notions of spectacle and viewership while raising the question of myth as antonym to history. In questioning these dichotomies, Cortés seeks to upend the idea of myth and lore as fiction.
Armando Guadalupe Cortés was born in Urequío, Michoacán, México, and was raised in Wilmington, California. He attended UCLA (BA, 2012) and Yale School of Art (MFA, 2021).
He has exhibited at the Craft Contemporary (Los Angeles, CA), Space One (Seoul, Korea), and White Cube (London UK, digital exhibition) among others. Recent projects include Castillos (2021, MassMOCA) and ¿Y la Gente? (2020, ASU Art Museum). He is currently a Franklin Furnace fellow (NYC, 2021-2022) and the St. Elmo Fellow at UT Austin (2021-2022).