A Meander-Through Simone Forti with Emily Mast

Join artist Emily Mast as she leads a creative “meander-through” of the exhibition Simone Forti. Mast, a longtime friend and collaborator of Forti’s, will share stories and memories from Forti’s friends, family, former students, collaborators, and caretakers. A guided tour written by a small orchestra of people, this “meander-through” will include stories both related to the work on view and not, offering visitors a highly personal glimpse into Forti’s community and a key insight into what makes her and her work as an artist so special.

Emily Mast's work pulls from a combination of practices—visual art, theater and dance—and is anchored in the production of multi-compositional projects that employ performance, installation and curation. She has staged “choreographed exhibitions” and presented performances at Villa Medici, Rome (2022); JOAN, LA (2022); Picasso Museum, Barcelona, Spain (2019); Theatre des Champs Elysees, Paris (2019); Los Angeles Dance Project (2019); LUMA Foundation, Arles, France (2018 & 2019); Human Resources, Los Angeles (2022 & 2018); FRAC Occitanie Montpellier, France (2017); Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria (2017); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2017); Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2016); Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel (2015); Mona Bismarck American Center, Paris (2015); Silencio, Paris (2015); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2014); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2014); Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space, New York (2013); REDCAT, Los Angeles (2012 & 2016) and Performa, New York (2009).

Simone Forti is organized by Rebecca Lowery, Associate Curator, and Alex Sloane, Associate Curator, with Jason Underhill, Guest Curator, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Simone Forti is made possible by The Friends of Simone Forti:

HOSTS
Laura Donnelley and Good Works Foundation, Betsy Greenberg, Deborah Irmas, and MOCA Projects Council.

SUPPORTERS
Knox Foundation and Hutcheson Family and

PARTICIPANTS
Julie and Larry Blivas in honor of Blake and Ryan Blivas and Alexandra and Danielle Neu, MOCA Projects Council Members, and The Jay and Deanie Stein Foundation Trust.

Exhibitions at MOCA are supported by the MOCA Fund for Exhibitions with generous funding provided by the Earl and Shirley Greif Foundation.

In-kind support provided by The Box, Los Angeles.

This exhibition is carbon calculated. The museum reduced greenhouse gas emissions through planning efforts and balanced the remaining emissions through Strategic Climate Fund donations. Support provided by the MOCA Environmental Council.