Alongside the framework of ficciones patógenas, the newly opened exhibition at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, artists Camilo Godoy and francisco godoy vega of Colectivo Ayllu engage in a conversation on how whiteness has operated as a colonial ideology, historically producing material and symbolic systems of dehumanizing racialized bodies, and continuously reproducing political, linguistic, and symbolic methodologies today.
Organized by Georgie Sánchez and Stamatina Gregory, Head Curator / Director of Exhibitions and Collections at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art.
This activation is co-sponsored by the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, The Latinx Project, Espacio de Cultures @KJCC and the NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.
Accessibility
Captions in Spanish and English will be provided. Located at 26 Wooster Street, five external steps lead to our entrance doors: a wheelchair lift is available. All galleries are wheelchair-accessible, and a single-occupancy accessible restroom is located behind the visitor services desk: all restrooms are gender-neutral. Large print didactics are available. For questions or access requests, please email info@leslielohman.org with 1 week advance of your visit.
Panelists
Francisco Godoy Vega is a QBIPOC writer, artist and curator. PhD in History of Art and Visual Culture (UAM, 2015) and member of the Collectivo Ayllu. His publications include "Uses and Customs of Whites" (2023), "Exhibition as Recolonization" (2018) and "There Is No Sex Without Racialization)" (ed., 2017). He has also published the poetry books "The Revolution of the Rats" (2013) and "The Sudaca's Disease" (2018) and has also been a speaker at more than twenty seminars and conferences, including Ámà: 4 Days on Caring, Repairing and Healing (Gropius Bau, 2021), Aabaakwad (MCA Sydney, 2020) and Decolonizing the Museum (MACBA, 2014). He has curated exhibitions such as The Theft of Pain (MNBA Chile, 2023), All Shades of Anger (MUSAC, 2018) and Critique of Migrant Reason (La Casa Encendida, 2014). As a member of the Collectivo Ayllu, he has exhibited at Matadero Madrid, the Sydney Biennial, the Santa Mònica Arts Center, the Kochi Biennial, the CAC in Quito and the São Paulo Biennial.
Camilo Godoy is an artist born in Bogotá and based in New York. He has participated in several residencies including at New Museum, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), SOLARIS, Movement Research, coleção moraes-barbosa, New Dance Alliance, and Recess. Godoy's work has been exhibited in New York at the Brooklyn Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum, CUE, OCDChinatown, PROXYCO Gallery; Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá; Moody Center, Houston; UNSW Galleries, Sydney; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito; among others. He has performed at Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church, New Museum, Toronto Biennial, and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm. He currently teaches at Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and Whitney Museum.
Installation view of ficciones patógenas. Photograph by Daniel Terna. © 2025 Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York.