Nov 15, 2025

SFAC Main Gallery

The “perimeter” has long been a point of reference in Los Angeles-based artist Carmen Argote’s work. For this performance, To Bright Disturbances exhibiting artist Argote pushes along the edges of her discomfort, her interior architecture, and her own boundaries and limits within the navigation of binary systems of thinking and perception. The work will incorporate performance, photography, and drawing.

This performance is an iteration of a work (first done in 2020 in the artist’s home in LA) that surfaced into a more complete iteration while in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts in summer 2025.

The hand is the first stamp and the first stencil

It is the first touch

The first transference

Holding, hiding

The first pushing away

set 1: Installation images at San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries- photos by Aaron Wojack
set 2: Performance “Body Draws The Room: Perimiter Trees”- photos by Minoosh Zomorodina
Set 3: before deinstall photos by Jackie Im