Curator Talk with Artist Lewis DeSoto at the San Diego Automotive Museum

Come chat with artist Lewis deSoto about Conquest, now installed at the San Diego Automotive Museum.

With his automotive-based sculpture Conquest (2004), artist Lewis deSoto examines the relationship between his Cahuilla background and his distant ancestor (conquistador Hernando de Soto) within the context of the automotive industry, which in its branding appropriates terms, imagery, and aesthetics related to the brutal conquest of the Americas. Conquest subtly interrogates the mythologies and identities of Southern California through the lens of midcentury capitalism. Per Mr. deSoto, "Conquest is a project to trace the ironic threads of DeSoto: automobile, conquistador, myself and our culture. It proposes that the metaphor of history is a set of divergent parallel universes in which to traverse and communicate with."

SDAM invites you to learn more about this amazing work at our first event in the Curator Talks series.

For more information visit: engage.sdautomuseum.org

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