Lo Invisible, Una Fruta Tropical
Ink on canvas and acrylic paint. Overall installation: 90 W x 120 H inches.This installation aims to explore the role of artists in colonial practices throughout history. It includes a painted image of a bunch of bananas in the background taken from Pierre Joseph Redoute's print series Les Liliacées (1805-1816). Les Liliacées was a series commissioned under the patronage of Empress Josephine, Napoleon's wife.
The nine rows of 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.
The mural underneath.This is installation was created for the Sixth AIM Biennial at The Bronx Museum of the Art. 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.