The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Lydia Platón Lázaro

Institution
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
Grant Cycle
Fall 2018
Amount
$50,000
Type of Grant
Curatorial Research Fellowships

Novenario: Art and Mourning reflects on how Puerto Rican contemporary artists articulate notions of recovery from hurricanes Irma and María (2017), while situating mourning and loss at the center of contemporary art practice as transformation in the history of art production in Puerto Rico.

The exhibition showcases the rich relationship that abounds in the Caribbean to ritual, community solidarity, and self-representation challenges related to the regions’ particular histories, and traumatic events, that include colonialism, slavery, environmental upheaval and the direct effects caused by devastation due to storms and hurricanes. The exhibition includes more than 24 intergenerational artists whose practices vary among drawing, photography, weaving, installation, video, sculpture, painting, and performance.

“The terrific range of project proposals we receive each year speaks to the mobile and porous disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art practice, and to the rich and inventive ways writers approach art today. They are alert to the urgent need to expand the conventions of art history and criticism with ideas from other discourses, such as black studies, transnational and diaspora studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBT studies. The work of lesser known and overlooked artists and art communities continues to be mined, with writers articulating new ways to counter the striking imbalances of race, class and gender that continue to affect the arts and the culture industry.”

Pradeep Dalal, Program Director,  The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant