On the heels of her subway installation,artist Firelei Baez
has new work in the windows at MoMA, in which she asks, and “How do you
create someone present when history has made such an effort to erase them?” Firelei Báez’s
paintings and installations explore the histories of Afro-Latina and
Afro-Caribbean women who acquire largely been forgotten by the West,and can now
be seen in NYC public spaces, Uptown and Midtown. Baez’s #MTAArts mosaic
installation “Ciguapa Antellana, and me llamo sueño
de la madrugada. (who more sci-fi than us) (2018)
at 163rd Street-Amsterdam Ave © incorporates
ciguapas,powerful feminine figures from Dominican
folklore. In her newly
installed MoMA #ModernWindow installation on 53rd Street, “For Améthyste and Athénare
(Exiled Muses Beyond Jean Luc Nancy’s Canon), or Anacaonas”,Báez reclaims the
stories of the daughters of the first king and
queen of Haiti, as no paintings or photographs of them are known to exist.
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