“no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Artwork within the Wake of Hurricane Maria”—a landmark exhibition centering on artists’ views on the pressing points impacting Puerto Rico in the present day—opens on the Whitney Museum of American Artwork on November 23, 2022 and runs by means of April 23, 2023. [Member previews available November 17–21.]
5 years after Hurricane Maria—a Class 4 storm that hit the island in 2017—an intergenerational group of Puerto Rican artists reply to the devastation and transformation the storm introduced with it.
Description: no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Artwork within the Wake of Hurricane Maria is organized to coincide with the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Maria—a high-end Class 4 storm that hit Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017. The exhibition explores how artists have responded to the transformative years since that occasion by bringing collectively greater than fifty artworks made during the last 5 years by an intergenerational group of greater than fifteen artists from Puerto Rico and the diaspora. no existe un mundo poshuracán—a verse borrowed from Puerto Rican poet Raquel Salas Rivera—is the primary scholarly exhibition centered on Puerto Rican artwork to be organized by a big U.S. museum in almost half a century.
Whereas Hurricane Maria serves as a focus, the exhibition is outlined by a bigger context through which the aftermath of the storm was additional exacerbated by the chain of occasions that preceded and adopted this (un)pure catastrophe, together with the austerity measures applied by the PROMESA legislation (also referred to as La Junta); the deaths of 4,645 Puerto Ricans as a consequence of the Hurricane; the protests throughout the Verano del 19 (Summer season of 2019) that led to the ouster of governor Ricardo Rosselló; the string of earthquakes; the COVID-19 pandemic; and rather more. As a response to those fixed existential threats, the exhibition affords a platform to the artists and the methods they’ve solid paths by means of the wake of those legacies.
This exhibition is organized by Marcela Guerrero, Jennifer Rubio Affiliate Curator, with Angelica Arbelaez, Rubio Butterfield Household Fellow, and Sofía Silva, former Curatorial & Training Fellow in U.S. Latinx Artwork.
For extra data, see https://whitney.org/exhibitions/no-existe