Lo Invisible, Una Fruta Tropical
This installation uses screen-printed canvases to delve into the hidden story of United Fruit Company workers in Colombia in 1928. The installation includes a figurative representation of a banana bunch in the background taken from the print series Les Liliacées by Pierre Joseph Redoute; by using this particular image, the installation aims to question the role of artists in colonial practices throughout history. The nine rows of small canvases represent the nine demands made by banana plantation workers to improve their working conditions during a strike that led to their massacre by the Colombian Army, backed by the US, on December 12, 1928. Les Liliacées (1805-1816) by Redoute was a series commissioned under the patronage of Empress Josephine, Napoleon's wife.
Screen printed canvases and acrylic paint.
Overall installation: 90 W x 120 H, Each Piece : 9 W x 12 H inches;
The Mural Underneath
This is installation was created for the Sixth AIM Biennial at The Bronx Museum of the Art, January 26th to March 31st.
The show features 53 artists who explore issues related to race, gender, class, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity, religion, and nationality as a means of contending with colonial histories and imagining speculative futures.