You Know Who You Are: Recent Acquisitions of Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection

Exposición / El Espacio 23 / 2270 NW 23rd Street / Miami, Florida, Estados Unidos
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Cuándo:
27 oct de 2022 - 30 jun de 2023

Inauguración:
27 oct de 2022

Comisariada por:
Anelys Álvarez-Muñoz, Patricia Garcia-Velez Hanna

Organizada por:
El Espacio 23, Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation

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Descripción de la Exposición

This exhibition highlights works acquired since 2017 as part of an ongoing investigation and interest in art from Cuba and Cuban diaspora. It succeeds a significant donation of contemporary Cuban art to the Pérez Art Museum Miami in 2016. Rather than a historical survey of Cuban art, this thematic exhibition brings together artists from different generations who share collective experiences yet take very personal approaches to their practices. You Know Who You Are is a statement of confidence and resistance. In the context of Cuban art and culture, knowing yourself, having a voice, and defending your beliefs is an act of defiance. The fragmented history of Cuban art has been subjected to political readings, to the dichotomy of inside and outside—the island and its diaspora. It has been marked by intentional omissions, by the erasure of talented artists whose forced or voluntary exiles extracted them from the cultural continuum of the nation, and by generations of Cubans who were not born on the island. Amid so many collective dramas, this exhibition focuses on each artist’s personal journey. The artists in this exhibition revisit Cuba’s past and examine its present by questioning history, deconstructing hierarchies, and reflecting on notions of representation, race, gender, diversity, and human rights, while others reclaim a connection with the island by referencing its physicality or its place in collective memory. "You Know Who You Are" was co-curated by Anelys Alvarez and Patricia Hanna from El Espacio 23. Artists included in the exhibition: Gustavo Acosta, Pavel Acosta, Alina Águila, Juan Carlos Alom, Lester Álvarez, Alexandre Arrechea, Belkis Ayón, Waldo Balart, Serlián Barreto, Abel Barroso, Hernan Bas, José Bedia, David Beltrán, Cundo Bermúdez, Ricardo Brey, Tania Bruguera, Ariel Cabrera, Alejandro Campins, María Magdalena, Campos-Pons, Raúl Cañibano, Iván Capote, Yoan Capote, Agustín Cárdenas, Yaima Carrazana, Los Carpinteros (Alexandre Arrechea, Marco A. Castillo, Dagoberto Rodríguez), Marco Castillo, Javier Castro, Elizabet Cerviño, Arien Chang, Ariamna Contino, Raúl Cordero, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Arturo Cuenca, Sandu Darie, Juan Roberto Diago, Roberto Diago, Rafael Domenech, Antonia Eiriz, Tomás Esson, Carlos Estévez, Roberto Fabelo, Adrián Fernández, Agustín Fernández, Antonio Eligio Fernández (Tonel), Diana Fonseca, Carlos Garaicoa, Rocío García, Carlos García de la Nuez, Nereida García Ferraz, Ernesto García Sánchez, Flavio Garciandía, Anthony Goicolea, Alejandro González, Alex Hernández, Diango Hernández, Orestes Hernández, Wifredo Lam, Julio Larraz, Hamlet Lavastida, Glenda León, Reynier Leyva Novo, Guido Llinás, Rogelio López Marín (Gory), Luis Enrique López-Chávez, Armando Mariño, Raúl Martínez, Enrique Martínez Celaya, Luis Martínez Pedro, Manuel Mendive, Alberto Menocal, José Manuel Mesías, José Mijares, Abelardo Morell, Levi Orta, William Osorio, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, Jorge Pardo, Amelia Peláez, René Peña, Umberto Peña, Iván Perera, Douglas Pérez, Emilio Pérez, Marta María Pérez Bravo, Michel Pérez (Pollo), Eduardo Ponjuán, Wilfredo Prieto, Carlos Quintana, Sandra Ramos, Ema Ri, Dagoberto Rodríguez, Fernando Rodríguez, René Francisco Rodríguez, René Francisco Rodríguez & Eduardo Ponjuán, Carlos Rodríguez Cárdenas, José Rosabal, Lázaro Saavedra, Zilia Sánchez, Esterio Segura, Loló Soldevilla, Rafael Soriano, José Ángel Toirac, Rubén Torres Llorca, Juana Valdés, Rachel Valdés, Antonio Vidal, Rafael Villares, Antonia Wright, José Eduardo Yaque.

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