Caribbean Art
BREATHE INTO THE PAST: CROSSCURRENTS IN THE CARIBBEAN
This exhibition features the work of twelve artists with connections to the Caribbean—including the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, and coastal Colombia.
Daniel Lind Ramos: De Loíza a la Loíza
«De Loíza a la Loíza», del artista puertorriqueño Daniel Lind Ramos (1953), conforma una comunidad de conocimiento que, a través de varios eventos, vinculó al barrio de San Mateo de Cangrejos en San Juan y el pueblo de Loíza, a través de performances, varias obras del artista y comida típica loiceña. El proyecto fue desarrollado entre diciembre de 2019 y enero de 2020 por encargo del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC), bajo la curaduría de Marianne Ramírez Aponte, Directora Ejecutiva y Curadora en Jefe, y Marina Reyes Franco, Curadora del MAC.
CARIBBEAN FUTURE. CONVERSATION WITH MARÍA ELENA ORTIZ
Taking into account the number of Caribbean exhibitions focused on past and present histories, «The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art» curated by María Elena Ortiz and Marsha Pearce at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) approaches the Caribbean as an experiment of possibilities based on time. From the question “what might a Caribbean future look like?” fourteen artists were invited to develop works that challenge the imaginary of exuberance, primitivism, sexuality, tropical paradise and catastrophe, that have defined the region. In this interview, we talked with María Elena Ortiz (Puerto Rico, 1984) about her curatorial trajectory, visibility platforms, and Caribbean future in the exhibition context.
Tilting Axis, a Change Agent in The Caribbean
While there is currently a notable international interest in contemporary visual practices from the Caribbean and its diaspora, for Tilting Axis the challenge is to deepen those commitments, so that exchanges with and within the region remain in time and do not move away with the transience of the discourses and the tendencies of the moment. We talked with the core team about how this vital project works and what are some of its present challenges.
Tatiana Flores on «relational Undercurrents», an Unprecedented Show on Contemporary Art in The Insular Caribbean
«Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art from the Caribbean Archipelago», currently exhibited by the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) in Long Beach, California, offers an unprecedented look at the artistic manifestations of the insular Caribbean, a region of the Americas that is difficult to categorize and often overlooked.