Join us to celebrate the release of Carmen Amengual: A Non-Coincidental Mirror and the closing of the exhibition of the same name at Smack Mellon, presented in the context of the artist’s 2022–2024 Vera List Center for Art and Politics Fellowship. 

The launch will feature a conversation with artist Carmen Amengual and film writer and programmer Yasmina Price, moderated by exhibition co-curator Eriola Pira. Building on their research and work, they explore the legacies of the Global South’s anticolonial, anti-imperial, and revolutionary filmmaking and attempts to historicize and reclaim their transformative power in the present. They also examine film as a tool for cultural production, political education, and solidarity movements.

Her expansive project A Non-Coincidental Mirror traces two often-forgotten events in the cultural history of Global South solidarities: the Third World Filmmakers Meeting in Algiers in 1973 and its second iteration in Buenos Aires in 1974 and their myriad aftermaths from an artistic and historiographical perspective. The book brings together a visual collage of Amengual’s research, film stills, and architectural models alongside a reflection on the trajectory of Amengual’s project by exhibition curators Eriola Pira and Rachel Vera Steinberg; an essay by film historian Mariano Mestman contextualizing cinematic Third-Worldism in the 1960s and 1970s; and a conversation between the artist and independent curator and writer Natasha Marie Llorens on shared political desires, loss, and utopian imagining in Algiers and Buenos Aires. 

Carmen Amengual: A Non-Coincidental Mirror is edited by Re’al Christian and Eriola Pira and published by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, 2025. Designed by Jacob Lindgren. Softcover, edition of 500.