Simone Leigh

The Hugo Boss Prize 2018: Simone Leigh, Loophole of Retreat at the Guggenheim.

an act of astonishing fortitude that carved out a space of sanctuary and autonomy in defiance of an unjust reality.

The title is drawn from the writings of Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897).

XIII Bienal de La Habana 2019

La construcción de lo posible.

via cac_wilfredo_lam T and IG.

Curatorial team – Margarita González Llorente, Jorge Alfonso García, Nelson Herrera Ysla, José Manuel Noceda, Ibis Hernández, Margarita Sánchez, Lisset Alonso Compte, and Pepe Fernández; via La Jiribilla.

“Entre las instituciones que acogerán la 13 Bienal estarán el propio Centro Wifredo Lam, el Pabellón Cuba, el Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, la Fototeca de Cuba, buena parte de la red de instituciones culturales de la Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad, la Biblioteca Nacional José Martí y la Galería Villa Manuela de la Uneac, a los que se suman otros espacios urbanos.” via Granma.

Related : A call for solidarity against Decree 349. Background. Miami Herald on the decree. Miami Herald on Cuba (122718).

Tout-Monde Festival, 2018

Edwidge Danticat and Michael Dash on Glissant. Tout-Monde Festival, March 1-4, 2018 at Pérez Art Museum.

27:42 Le lieu et l’espace. Place and space.

30:10 For Glissant, it was a totalité non-totalisable, that is, you know that the world is a totality, but you could not totalized it. And this where we get to the question of resisting philosophical thought …philosophical thought would attempt to totalize the world, that is to give it some kind of universal structure, organized in some sort of way.

Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago at FIU

Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago is a major survey exhibition of twenty-first century art from islands throughout the Caribbean basin.

On view, at The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Saturday, October 13, 2018 through Sunday, January 13, 2019. Curated by Tatiana Flores, Associate Professor of Art History and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University. Organized by: Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California.
 
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Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, “Matrulla,” 2014, Digital video, 6:30 minutes, Courtesy of the artist and Galeria Agustina Ferreyra.

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Didier William, “Dancing Pouring, Crackling and Mourning,” 2015, Mixed media on wood, 60 x 48 inches, Courtesy of the Robert and Frances Coulborn Kohler Collection.

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Deborah Jack, Evidence 19 from the series Our Tears Were Reborn As…, 2009-2011, Digital print on aluminum, 28 x 42 inches, Courtesy of the artist.

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Jeannette Ehlers, Black Bullets, 2012, Video, 5:05 minutes, Courtesy of the artist.


Views of the part of the show at the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University.


Flores and Scherezade Garcia at LA Art Show.

Catalogue. Artishock. LATimes. Hyperallergic. Recent review in X-TRA.

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