First Light is excited to host artist Adeline de Monseignat in collaboration with UT Landmarks and the Department of Art and Art History for an artist talk with Landmarks’ founding director Andrée Bober. The artist’s visit will coincide with Landmarks’ screening of her video work In the Flesh (2016), inspired by Professor Alison Leitch's essay Visualizing the Mountain (2007).

This event will begin with an artists' reception from 6–6:30, followed by the conversation. Tickets include a copy of the book and a reserved seat. Unreserved seats are available on a first come, first served basis. Free RSVPs are also encouraged.

About the speakers

Adeline de Monseignat is a sculptor who lives and works between London and Mexico City.  Her work focuses on the life within inanimate entities, through the study of mythology, symbolism, anthropomorphism and the uncanny. She holds a BA in Language and Culture from University College London, a Foundation Diploma from the Slade School of Fine Art, and an MA in Fine Arts from the City and Guilds of London Art School. Her work has been shown worldwide in galleries, institutions, and art fairs around the world. She is the recipient of the RBS Busrary Award 2013, the Catlin Art 2012 Visitor’s Prize and Arcadia Missa Gallery Prize 2011.

She will be joined in conversation by Andrée Bober, the founding director and curator of Landmarks, the public art program of The University of Texas at Austin. She inaugurated the program with a long-term loan of twenty-eight sculptures from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2008. Since then, Bober has commissioned major works by artists such as Michael Ray Charles, Ann Hamilton, and James Turrell. Prior to Austin, Bober led the Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati as deputy and then acting director. She studied art history and museology at UT; practiced painting conservation in Vienna, Austria; and earned an MA in Arts Administration from Columbia University.

About the book

MOTHERHOOD IN FOUR ACTS is a publication from Anomie Publishing about the sculptures and sculptural installations of Mexico-based artist Adeline de Monseignat (b. 1987, Monaco). It is also about the artist’s experiences of matrescence—the process of becoming a mother—and how these experiences are interwoven with her sculptural works.

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