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El pasado mio/My own past: Afrodescendant contributions to cuban art

Exposición / Ethelbert Cooper Gallery - Hutchins Center for African & African American Research - Harvard University / 102 Mount Auburn Street, 3R / Cambridge, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos
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Cuándo:
06 sep de 2022 - 21 dic de 2022

Inauguración:
06 sep de 2022

Comisariada por:
Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz

Organizada por:
Hutchins Center for African & African American Research - Harvard University
Etiquetas
Escultura  Escultura en Massachusetts  Instalación  Instalación en Massachusetts  Pintura  Pintura en Massachusetts 

       


Descripción de la Exposición

This exhibition proposes a new approach to Cuban art through a historical reconstruction built from and through the production of artists of African heritage. Africans and their descendants have been the creators of much of the material cultures of the Americas, yet their contributions are seldom acknowledged, identified, attributed, and studied. Many of the Africans who survived the Middle Passage and landed in Cuba and other colonies came from areas, communities, and cultures with a long and rich history of visual production. Against significant odds, they were able to reconstruct kinship networks, historical African knowledge, sensibilities, techniques, and visual cues, which found their way into colonial and modern visual cultures. Identifying these contributions is no easy task, but most scholars, curators, and critics, steeped in Western methodologies and chronologies of the visual arts, have not even tried. By centering the visual production of Cuban artists of African descent from the 19th century to the present for the first time, El Pasado Mío / My Own Past seeks to highlight the racialized understandings that have informed the traditional canon. We hope to invite new approaches, much-needed new research, by showcasing a group of artists who have never been exhibited together, including some who have received very limited attention from art historians, critics, and collectors. We want to understand Cuba’s pasts through their lives, experiences, and artistic production. We are trying to get close to their own pasts.


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