Carmen Amengual is a 2022–2024 Vera List Center Fellow whose fellowship project, A Non-coincidental Mirror, is part of the Vera List Center’s Focus Theme cycle Correction*.

A Non-coincidental Mirror fabricates a memory of a forgotten event: the Third World Cinema Meeting. Held in Algiers in 1973, the conference served as a hub where “third-world” filmmakers discussed the role of filmmaking in anti-colonial struggles, made agreements to support each other’s works, and strategized about how to produce films under dire political conditions. Out of these meetings, the conference organizers planned to film an educational documentary about anti-colonial movements in Africa to share with and inspire a Latin American audience. The VLC Fellowship project A Non-Coincidental Mirror imaginatively reconstructs their venture and the documentary film that never materialized by experimenting with storytelling, documentary forms, and modes of installation.

Carmen Amengual is an interdisciplinary artist from Argentina living and working in Los Angeles. Her projects encompass research, film, sculpture, sound, text, and installation strategies to examine the mediations between memory, biography, and history. Through engagement with research, archives, literature, myths, and oral histories, her works examine the way experience is transmitted within and across generations, focusing often on the legacies of worlds about to be lost, from political imaginaries to biological life. Amengual’s work has been exhibited at Artists Space, New York; Table, Chicago; Human Resources, Echo Park Film Center (EPFC), and E.D. Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; and Museo Trabucco, Buenos Aires. She was Assistant Curator and Exhibitions Manager at the Gallery at REDCAT in Los Angeles, and Research Fellow and Assistant Curator for the Getty Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA project The Words of Others: León Ferrari and Rhetoric in Times of War. Amengual has participated in residencies at SOMA Mexico, Mountain School of Arts, and The REEF in Los Angeles. She holds a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Buenos Aires, an MFA from CalArts, and was a fellow of the 2021–2022 Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program.