CREATIVES IN CONVERSATION / IÑIGO NAVARRO AND VALERIE MILES
We’re excited and honoured to be hosting this event with our literary partners Madrid Bookie.
Artist Iñigo Navarro and writer, editor and translator Valerie Miles come together in an online conversation to share thoughts on their work on art and literature and discuss how the two are intrinsically connected.
Tuesday 09th June 2020
Iñigo is a Spanish contemporary artist whose works have been exhibited across the globe. His art treads a beautiful and fascinating line between the real and the mysterious, drawing us deeper in to every piece.
After having studied Mathematics at University for three years, Iñigo decided to change gears and joined the Fine Arts Faculty of Université Complutense (1999-2004). His family supported this change, especially his mother, who is a restorer at the Prado Museum (Madrid).
He is represented and exhibited by Galeria Contrast in Barcelona, Spain and Galerie Heissings Art in Lübeck, Germany.
Valerie is an American writer, editor and translator in Spain. She co-founded Granta’s ongoing Spanish language project and has overseen imprints like Emecé and Alfaguara. Her editorial work and research in Roberto Bolaño’s archive led her to co-curate the first exhibition of his unpublished papers, Archivo Bolaño, 1977 - 2003. Her first book is A Thousand Forests in One Acorn. Recent editorial and translation projects include Azar Nafisi’s Nabokov and the Puzzle of Exile for Yale, and a new edition of Juan Eduardo Cirlot's Dictionary of Symbols for New York Review of Books. She is on the board of the MALBA residency in Buenos Aires, and writes for Granta, El País, La Nación, The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Paris Review.
Valerie was awarded the NEA Fellowship this year for her translation of Rafael Chirbes's novel, Crematorio.