Conversation with Artist Elle Pérez and Associate Curator Ashton Cooper
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The Des Moines Art Center invites visitors to join artist Elle Pérez in conversation with Associate Curator Ashton Cooper. The two will discuss and dive into the body of photographs presented in the exhibition “Elle Pérez: La Despedida,” on view in the A. H. Blank Gallery through November 29, 2026.
Elle Pérez is an artist working across photography, collage, and moving image. Their work depicts intimate moments, emotional exchanges, and visceral details within the love and violence of everyday life.
The artist’s 2025 series “La Despedida (the world is always ending, the world is always again beginning)” encompasses photographs taken in the gardens of two very different sites: Pérez’s grandfather’s backyard in Puerto Real, Puerto Rico, and Impressionist painter Claude Monet’s home in Giverny, France. In the eleven photographs on view, Pérez deploys close cropping, zooming in on expanses of blooming flowers, lace curtains, and breaking waves.
Free; registration required. https://tickets.desmoinesartcenter.org/?tab=Events&mode=Event&program=&view_date=&period=Weekly&event=1784735603007x827637760730595300
Image: Artist Elle Pérez. Photo: KL Mays.
Elle Pérez is an artist working across photography, collage, and moving image. Their work depicts intimate moments, emotional exchanges, and visceral details within the love and violence of everyday life.
The artist’s 2025 series “La Despedida (the world is always ending, the world is always again beginning)” encompasses photographs taken in the gardens of two very different sites: Pérez’s grandfather’s backyard in Puerto Real, Puerto Rico, and Impressionist painter Claude Monet’s home in Giverny, France. In the eleven photographs on view, Pérez deploys close cropping, zooming in on expanses of blooming flowers, lace curtains, and breaking waves.
Free; registration required. https://tickets.desmoinesartcenter.org/?tab=Events&mode=Event&program=&view_date=&period=Weekly&event=1784735603007x827637760730595300
Image: Artist Elle Pérez. Photo: KL Mays.
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Des Moines Art Center, 4700 Grand Ave,Des Moines,IA,United States
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