Utopia Post-Utopia
Conceptual Photography and Video from Cuba
- Author(s): Helaine Posner, Eugenio Valdés Figueroa, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art,
- Publisher: SUNY Press
- Pages: 63
- ISBN_10: 1438431244
ISBN_13: 9781438431246
- Language: en
- Categories: Photography / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General , Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General , Art / Conceptual , Art / Caribbean & Latin American , Art / Film & Video ,
Description:... This illustrated exhibition catalogue includes the work of nine photographers and video artists who are on the cutting edge of the Cuban art scene: Tania Bruguera, Raúl Cordero, Carlos Garaicoa, Luis Gómez, Ernesto Leal, Elsa Mora, René Peña, Manuel Piña, and Sandra Ramos. Although their images reflect very specific experiences, this specificity infuses their work with universal relevance, dramatizing how art can, through images that are both poetic and provocative, address universal issues of personal identity, dislocation, and place. Also included are essays by guest curator Helaine Posner and art critic Eugenio Valdés Figueron that examine each of the featured artists works.
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