Firelei BÁez
Artforum’s newest video series, “Under the Influence,” invites the most significant artists of today to discuss the ideas, events, works, and people that have been crucial to their development. For the final episode of 2024 we interview Firelei Báez, who talks to us about science fiction, artists Elia Alba and Simone Leigh, and how studying at New York’s Cooper Union influenced her, among other subjects.
Báez’s “The Fact That It Amazes Me Does Not Mean I Relinquish It” is on view at Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, through January 5, 2025. Her midcareer survey at the Vancouver Art Gallery is up until March 16, 2025.
