School of Aging - Ana Beatriz Gallardo & Alejandra Gatti

School of Aging is a project by Ana Gallardo in which the artist explores the violences that society imposes on old people, but also how elderly women have overcome them by collectively engaging in learning, caring, and support activities. She engages in long-term work and conversations with elderly women from different backgrounds, and together they develop activities that relate to their unrealized dreams and life goals.

Activations: 29 April 2025 at IASPIS, Stockholm 

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Workshop: Drawing Through the Other – Copying as a Point of Departure
With Ana Gallardo & Alejandra Gatti

This workshop aims to reflect on the relationship between the original and the copy. We propose to question the concept of originality as a notion that denies collective memory and what has been transmitted or learned through it. What happens when we walk a path already travelled by others? What remains from that experience? What do we take? How do we transform it?

The workshop emphasizes “the copy” as a legitimate and meaningful act of creation, while questioning the notion of originality. What does it mean for something to be “original”? What value do we place on origin when every stroke, every form, is inevitably influenced by our past experiences and references? We will also challenge the idea of individual creation, opening up the possibility of thinking and learning as a collective act where copying does not deny creativity, but rather expands it. Because every new creation carries fragments of others—whether visible or not.

Performative reading around School of Aging 
Ana Gallardo and metaninfas (Alejandra Gatti)

Departing from the book that metaninfas have written and edited around School of Aging, Ana Gallardo and Alejandra Gatti will host a performative reading. They will read various excerpts around the word AFFECT and the stories contained in it. 

Based on this experience, we will talk about the word affect—about having an effect on others, about being affected, about influencing one another. Informally, through the book, they will also talk about School of Aging, about the experience we’ve shared (Ana – metaninfas), about Ana’s work and practice.

Ana Gallardo is an argentine artist based in Mexico. She addresses with her practice different levels of gender violence and the violence of growing old. In her work she proposes urgent and unique processes that move between invisibility and psychological depth; desperate words and helplessness; discretion and the exposure of the taboo. Gallardo is lecturer at Soma and runs various independent initiatives, such as Imán and La Verdi.

Alejandra Gatti is an argentine independent writer, curator and editor. Together with Lorena Fernández she directs metaninfas. Her current work investigates collective writing processes and practices that focus on open, displaced and constantly moving dynamics. She uses editorial work as a tool for action to circulate artistic projects and practices.

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