Honoree Talk: Adrián Villar Rojas

Adrián Villar Rojas reflects on the conceptual and material concerns that underpin First Gods, Lost Animals at Aspen Art Museum, situating it within the shifting relationship between figure and landscape that informs AIR 2026. His work approaches space as something staged and historically charged by inherited ways of seeing, but also continually rewritten through material intervention and cultural projection. Moving across vast geological time and non-anthropocentric narratives, the talk delves into how humans construct frameworks to render complexity navigable, and what is at stake when those systems begin to shift and unravel.

Aspen Art Museum, 637 East Hyman Avenue, Aspen, CO, USA
Tuesday, 7/28
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Adrian Villar Rojas
Adrián Villar Rojas, "Terrestrial Poems", 2025. Installation view at Aichi Triennale, Seto, Japan, 2025. Courtesy of the artist, the Aichi Triennale Organizing Committee, kurimanzutto, and Ruth Benzacar Galería de Arte. Photo: Cindi Beltramone

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