On Saturday, August 12, the Building Bridges Art Exchange, located in unit F2 of Bergamot Station, hosted an open house to welcome its two newest resident artists, Karen Perry and Jacobo Alonso, both of whom are visiting from Mexico. Gallery Director and Curator Marisa Caichiolo explained that the gallery regularly hosts artists from foreign countries – sometimes two different countries at a time – in order to encourage these artists to engage with each other’s unique perspectives, as well as that provided by the gallery. Perry and Alonso both attended the University of Baja California, and Perry was a teacher there for a number of years. Caichiolo explained that one unique element of this r
Join us for a performance presented in cooperation with Building Bridges Art Exchange and with support from the Getting to Know Europe program, awarded by the Delegation of the European Union to the United States. "The Life & Death of Elle Peril" presents a five-year experiment on persona. In the wake of revenge porn and cyber harassment, Lena Chen suffered from post-traumatic stress symptoms (depression, anxiety, paranoia, and hypervigilance) which impaired her ability to function socially and professionally. In 2013, she moved to Berlin and invented an alternate identity as nude model Elle Peril. Through ritualized acts of undressing and posing for (mostly male) strangers, Elle Peril fun
