"Tradition is broken but it costs" is the title of a collective exhibition that brings together the work of 17 Caribbean artists in the Universal Art Building of the National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA), in Havana. There are more than 20 pieces by creators from 10 Caribbean countries, an exhibition that confirms the importance that the Havana Biennial has given to the development of the visual arts of the region, as part of the program of its XV edition.
It is a collective project focused entirely on art made by Caribbean women, who form what I define as an advanced sensibility in contemporary art in this region, said José Manuel Noseda, curator of the exhibition together with Jorge Fernández Torres, director of the MNBA.
Although it is an approach that starts from gender issues, Noseda explained that it does not stop there. The artists address personal issues, race, authority, historical memory, the processes of coloniality and their consequences in the territories.
Bárbara Prezeau (Haiti), Jaime Lee Loy (Trinidad & Tobago), La Vaughn Belle (US Virgin Islands), Guy Gabon (Guadeloupe), María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Belkis Ayón Manso and Lisandra Ramírez Bernal (Cuba) are some of the names that can be found in this exhibition. Open to the public since November 2024, the exhibition was sponsored by the UNESCO Regional Office for Culture, based in Cuba, and will remain in the temporary room on the first floor of the cultural institution until next February.
(Taken from Prensa Latina)
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