ExhibitionDecember 22, 2022
Exhibition of Puerto Rican Artists at The Whitney Museum
The exhibition titled "No existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria" will be on view from November 23, 2022 through April 23, 2023 on the sixth floor of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
The show organized five years after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico explores how artists have responded to the years following the weather phenomenon that is considered the worst natural disaster ever recorded in the Caribbean islands. The museum brought together more than fifty works of art made by over fifteen artists from Puerto Rico and its diaspora. In addition, Puerto Rican poet Raquel Salas Rivera's verse, "there is no post-hurricane world," was taken as part of the title for the first academic exhibition focused on Puerto Rican art organized in one of the most outstanding museums in the United States in almost half a century.
The exhibition traces Hurricane María, but threads the consequences and events that followed, such as the death of 4,645 Puerto Ricans, the political effects like the PROMESA law, the protests during the summer of 19 that led to the destitution of Governor Ricardo Rosselló, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
The exhibition is organized by Marcela Guerrero, Jennifer Rubio Associate Curator, Angélica Arbelaez, Rubio Butterfield Family Fellow and Sofía Silva, former U.S. Latinx curatorial and art education fellow in Latinx art.
Participating artists: Candida Alvarez, Gabriella N. Baez, Rogelio Baez Vega, Sofia Cordova, Danielle De Jesus, Frances Gallardo, Sofia Gallisá Muriente, Miguel Luciano, Javier Orfón, Elle Pérez, Gamaliel Rodríguez, Raquel Salas Rivera, Gabriela Salazar, Armig Santos, Garvin Sierra Vega, Edra Soto, Awila Sterling-Duprey, Yiyo Tirado Rivera, Gabriella Torres-Ferrer and Lulu Varona.
The show organized five years after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico explores how artists have responded to the years following the weather phenomenon that is considered the worst natural disaster ever recorded in the Caribbean islands. The museum brought together more than fifty works of art made by over fifteen artists from Puerto Rico and its diaspora. In addition, Puerto Rican poet Raquel Salas Rivera's verse, "there is no post-hurricane world," was taken as part of the title for the first academic exhibition focused on Puerto Rican art organized in one of the most outstanding museums in the United States in almost half a century.
The exhibition traces Hurricane María, but threads the consequences and events that followed, such as the death of 4,645 Puerto Ricans, the political effects like the PROMESA law, the protests during the summer of 19 that led to the destitution of Governor Ricardo Rosselló, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
The exhibition is organized by Marcela Guerrero, Jennifer Rubio Associate Curator, Angélica Arbelaez, Rubio Butterfield Family Fellow and Sofía Silva, former U.S. Latinx curatorial and art education fellow in Latinx art.
Participating artists: Candida Alvarez, Gabriella N. Baez, Rogelio Baez Vega, Sofia Cordova, Danielle De Jesus, Frances Gallardo, Sofia Gallisá Muriente, Miguel Luciano, Javier Orfón, Elle Pérez, Gamaliel Rodríguez, Raquel Salas Rivera, Gabriela Salazar, Armig Santos, Garvin Sierra Vega, Edra Soto, Awila Sterling-Duprey, Yiyo Tirado Rivera, Gabriella Torres-Ferrer and Lulu Varona.
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