I Am: New Afro-Latinx Narratives - Chapter 2

February 28th – April 30th, 2022
Exclusively online

Co-Curated by Guest Curator María Elena Ortiz and MOLAA Chief Curator Gabriela Urtiaga

In celebration of Black History Month and during MOLAA’s AfroLatinx Festival, we look to honor African heritage and its significant influence in Latin American countries, intrinsically founded by and simultaneously part of the African diaspora.

For this occasion, we invited the guest curator María Elana Ortiz (b. Puerto Rico who lives and works in Miami, US) together with the MOLAA Chief Curator Gabriela Urtiaga, to join us in inviting a group of amazing artists who have a powerful point of view about important themes such as race, power, memory, identity, revisiting the imagery and heritage in communities of African descent.

Together with artists Daniel Lind-Ramos (Puerto Rico, b. 1952), Belkis Ayón (Cuba, 1967-1999), Eliazar Ortiz (Dominican Republic, b. 1981) and Glendalys Medina (Puerto Rico, b. 1979), we immerse ourselves in a collective experience, speaking towards a rich cultural expression, symbolic, and perpetual iconography. Together, these artists also address social and racial inequality, struggle, lack of opportunities and critically, the re-examining and re-envisioning of hope for a better present and better representation. Through artistic practice and the artists’ interests in social, political, and cultural references, we explore in-depth the intersection of activism and commitment to speak on histories from a perspective of diversity.