PAST EVENT
PAST EVENT
October 9–November 8, 2006
Public Speaking
6150 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
Artwork by
Ignasi Aballi
Ignasi Aballi is an artist who lives in Barcelona, Spain. Since 1998 he has been assembling lists based on daily cuttings from the newspaper. From these cuttings he organizes different groups creating an extensive series of lists on different themes: persons, dead persons, wounded persons, disappeared, immigrants, money, time, drugs and ideologies.
Public Speaking was a series of artists’ billboards that appeared over the course of three years—2004, 2005, and 2006. Works were selected for this temporary exhibition to spark curiosity, conversation, and debate. The 2006 series took the legacy of unlawful global prisoner detainment as its premise. Torture is wrong, immigrants are here, someday we’re all going to die.