I really feel very fortunate certainly to have seen an iteration of this exhibition on the Museum of Up to date Artwork [Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC)] in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Now, curated by Lisa Crossman, “Trópico es Político: Caribbean Artwork Beneath the Customer Financial system Regime,” is on view by means of Could 5, 2024, on the Mead Artwork Museum, Amherst Faculty, 220 South Nice Avenue, Amherst, Massachusetts. [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention. Shown above, one of my favs, Yiyo Tirado’s “Caribe Hostil,” 2020.]
Decsription: Trópico es Político: Caribbean Artwork Beneath the Customer Financial system Regime is a bunch exhibition that considers notions of pure and monetary paradise by means of the work of artists residing within the Caribbean and its diaspora. Curated by Marina Reyes Franco, the exhibition explores artists’ responses to the “customer economic system regime” that’s outlined by the confluence of tourism and finance within the area. Featured works in mediums reminiscent of video, portray, and set up heart fiscal and cultural alternate, our bodies, and territories, as a part of a essential investigation of how the tropical is political.
Collaborating artists:
Allora & Calzadilla
Dionne Benjamin-Smith
Ricardo Cabret
Carolina Caycedo
Blue Curry
Sofía Gallisá Muriente
Gwladys Gambie
Dalton Gata
Abigail Hadeed
Donna Conlon & Jonathan Harker
Darién Montañez
Joiri Minaya
José Morbán
nibia pastrana santiago
Oneika Russell
Dave Smith
Yiyo Tirado
Viveca Vázquez
Averia Wright
This exhibition was initiated as a collaboration between Americas Society and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico. This exhibition has been attainable due to help from Teiger Basis, The Andy Warhol Basis, and Mellon Basis.
Prior installations of this exhibition have been proven at: Americas Society, New York (September 7 – December 22, 2022) and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (San Juan, February 13 – July 30, 2023)
The set up of this exhibition at Amherst Faculty is organized by Lisa Crossman, Director of Curatorial Affairs, Mead Artwork Museum.
For extra data, see https://www.amherst.edu/museums/mead/exhibitions/2024/tropico-es-politico-caribbean-art-under-the-visitor-economy-regime-
[Shown above: Yiyo Tirado’s “Caribe Hostil,” 2020. Blue glass neon. Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Km 0.2, San Juan.]