Blog #11

 MCA BLOG



we visited the museum of contemporary art last Wednesday. we saw the "Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today" Exhibition on the forth floor. this exhibition meant to show it's audience a new approach  to contemporary art in the Caribbean diaspora and reveal more ways of thinking about identity and place.

before going to the museum we talked about body art and the history of it so when we got there we tried finding the art works of one of the artists mentioned in class.


Ana Mendieta-untitled 1985

Ana Mendieta-untitled 1985



Some interesting artworks:

Peter Doig-black curtain

Alia Farid-Mezquitas de Puerto

Firelei Baez-the soft afternoon air as you hold us all in a single death




information about the last four images:
Across this installation of eighty-one individual works, Firelei Báez describes the lives of the queen of Haiti, Marie- Louise Coidavid (1778-
1851), and her daughters. Coidavid and her daughters left Haiti after the death of her husband, Henri I, and lived in exile in Pisa, Italy. Several of Báez's other interests, including flora and fauna, the ciguapa (a female trickster in Dominican folklore), images of protest, and Yoruba mythology, are gathered across the installation's multiple panels. By intervening directly into historical material from different time periods and geographies, Báez collapses time and space to focus on global histories of Black fugitivity and resistance.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Blog #12

Image
 our trip to the culture center: one of the most meaningful works was the index of disappeared by Mariam Ghana and Chitra Ganesh. although there were many beautiful art works in this exhibition this work brought the purpose of this exhibition together: "Since 2004, Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani have collaborated on the Index of the Disappeared, a site-specific installation that operates both as a physical archive of post-9/11 disappearances-detentions, deportations, renditions, and redactions-and a mobile platform for public dialogue. The massive collection draws on radical archival, legal, and activist traditions to draw unlikely connections between seemingly disparate forms of state violence. According to the artists, "The point of the Index is not to collect everything relevant that is released into the public domain, but to sort through masses of information to retrieve and preserve small bits of significance, and then to make the connections that allow others to underst...
Read more

Blog #4:Color

Image
I'm generally more drawn to the color green. I like different shades of green especially lighter shades, it's just something about it that attracts me to that color. the picture you see is of Polar stratospheric clouds, they are  most common in Antarctica, but have also been observed in the Arctic, Scotland, Scandinavia, Alaska, Canada and the northern Russia and form  during  winter. think they look very beautiful and unreal, almost like a painting. I wish they would appear in the sky everywhere. I hope to see them in real life one day. 
Read more

Blog #2: Beauty

Image
 This Ted talk tells us about the evolution of beauty through Darwin's theory. it talks about some of the categories people find beautiful, it talks about whether if the beauty is in the eye of the beholder, a question answered at the end of this ted talk.i found the part which the presenter told us that all people find the same landscape beautiful because it's the landscape where all humans evolved, it was a fact I would like to know more about. his last statement "beauty is deep in our minds" was also interesting as I like how the whole ted talk got us to this point of view. an object I find beautiful:I find vintage cameras to be beautiful objects, they're just pleasing to my eyes. a person I find beautiful: this is my best friend hana, when I think of a beautiful person she is the first person who comes to my mind. a skilled craft I find beautiful: these are pictures of a craft called ghalamkari. ghalamkar fabric is a type of textile printing, patterned Iranian...
Read more