September 26, 2019 – March 8, 2020
Developed in close collaboration with the artists, Visual Memory: Home + Place features important works in a wide range of media—paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, and installations—some not previously shown. The exhibition is accompanied by amply illustrated companion volumes with interviews and essays.
iliana emilia García has been using the chair as her personal tool/star/instrument related to tradition and visual history; and one of the most public of signs, the heart, as the symbol to represent the intimate side of a communal activity as it is to feel, to remember and to interpret. She intends for these icons to tell history and to remember it; precisely humans’ basic need of emotional comfort, and our sense of loss and gain. To her, it is a constant search, not for answers, but for a certain satisfaction, and of an alleged reason of tradition when we believe to have one through the repetitions of patterns, which lead to an apparent safety.
Scherezade García’s work inhabits a baroque universe of different worlds of aesthetic planes. Through her work, she becomes a storyteller. Her visual narratives generate energy, alluding to the emotional physicality of artmaking; and there is the urgency of a concept to keep alive. The physical and emotional experience of drawing is essential to her process. Through her drawings, she creates beauty with lines. The process of drawing gives rise to visual codes which lead her to spontaneous compositions and intriguing meanings at once. She works in drawing, painting, installations, artists’ books, and video animation. Through these different media, she creates contemporary allegories of history, colonization, and politics.
The exhibition has received major support from the Secretariat of Hemispheric Affairs of the Organization of American States, the Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic to the OAS, and the FAMA | Friends of the Art Museum of the Americas.
Additional support for the catalogs has been provided by: Reginald García Muñoz and Iliana Ubias Renville, Tony Hernández, Carlos and Olga Herrera, Family García Matos, José Miguel Gómez, Pedro Cerón, Andrés Sánchez, Juan Victor Arámboles, Gilberto Cardenas and Dolores García, and Susan Delvalle.
Additional funding for the exhibition has been provided by: Ercilia Hernández, Jennifer Fleming, Ana-Ofelia Rodríguez, Berenice Barinas, José Vidal, Erick Ríos, Joanne Flores, V. Cybill Charlier, Manon Slome, Zeneida Moreno, Daisy Auger-Domínguez, Lilly Dollenmayer, Cecile Chong, Jennifer Lawrence, Alison Meares Cohen, Julia Santos Solomon, Ilonka Ubiñas, Jennifer Favorite, Reyin Leys, and Carolynn Sheehan.
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