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11/6/2012

Caribbean: Crossroads of the World

Queens Museum of Art, New York

It is the culmination of nearly a decade of collaborative research and scholarship organized by El Museo del Barrio in collaboration with the Queens Museum of Art and The Studio Museum in Harlem. The exhibition, comprised of more than 500 works of art spanning four centuries, emphasizes the relationship between the Caribbean and the United States and the artists from both locales who contribute to ongoing conversations about national and regional identity and belonging. Presenting work at the three museums and accompanied by an ambitious range of programs and events, Caribbean: Crossroads illuminates changing aesthetics and ideologies and provokes meaningful conversations about topics ranging from commerce and cultural hybridity to politics and popular culture. 'Fluid Motions' addresses the significance of water in the history of the Caribbean and how new developments in transportation have reshaped commercial routes, migratory movements and communications within the region and beyond. As a point of encounter between world powers, the Caribbean has experienced endless movement of people, goods and ideas. 'Kingdoms of this World' considers the variety of people, languages, art forms, and religions that co-exist in the Caribbean. Spiritual practices, popular music and dance genres, newly created dialects, and Carnival emerge from the diffusion and reconciliation of different cultures converging in the region. Artists have interpreted the ways in which cultures utilize transformation and camouflage as a metaphor for survival and resistance. (Image: Leo Matiz, Peacock from the Sea, 1939. Leo Matiz Foundation. Photo: Leo Matiz Foundation, Alejandra Matiz)

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