This exhibition by Carmen Amengual presents a film installation that revisits the first Third World Filmmakers Meeting in Algiers (1973) and its second iteration in Buenos Aires (1974). The work examines the role of architecture and cinema in shaping Third World solidarity, tracing networks of exchange and collective knowledge production across the Global South. Developed over two years of research in Buenos Aires, Algiers, and Paris, the project uses architecture as an entry point to the utopian horizons of the past and their ruin in the present. The installation weaves together three threads: an inquiry into political cinema and its methodologies; a reflection on architecture and the decolonial project, including Niemeyer’s University of Algiers and struggles within Buenos Aires’ architecture school; and a meditation on the present, conveyed through portraits of buildings and infrastructures that embody layered histories of aspiration, displacement, and unfinished futures. A publication with commissioned essays accompanies the exhibition.

Carmen Amengual is an interdisciplinary artist, independent researcher, and filmmaker from Argentina, living between Buenos Aires and Los Angeles. Her practice engages archives, literature, myths, and oral histories to examine the intersections of memory, biography, and political history. Working across film, installation, sound, text, and sculpture, she investigates how collective imaginaries and identity formations shape political imagination and how historical experience is transmitted across generations. Her projects rearticulate narratives of resistance while excavating their emancipatory potential. Amengual’s work has been presented nationally and internationally at Smack Mellon (Brooklyn), Artists Space (New York), Human Resources and 2220 Arts & Archives (Los Angeles), Table (Chicago), Cité internationale des arts (Paris), Biquini Wax EPS (Mexico City), and Museo Centenario (Buenos Aires). She has also participated in conferences and screenings across the US and abroad. She is a Whitney Museum Independent Study Program fellow, Vera List Center fellow, Graham Foundation grantee, and Creative Capital awardee.