Firelei Báez, new work

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Title: Firelei Báez, new work
Description: Firelei Báez was born in 1980 in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, and currently lives and works in New York. With a convergence of interests in anthropology, science fiction, black female subjectivity, and women’s work, Baéz is interested in how culture and identity are shaped by inherited histories. Approaching selfhood as malleable, her work serves as a defense against culturally predetermined ethnic stereotypes as maintained and perpetuated by dominant narratives. Drawing attention to the incomplete nature of our communal stories, Baéz creates alternate environments in which cultures, disparate or alike, can commune.

In this exhibition, a new body of work is presented featuring three paintings and an immersive installation manifest from the artist's research on the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) and its enduring significance.

This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the Netherlands.

Participants

Firelei Báez

Curators

Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Rosa de Graaf

Supported By

AMMODO, James Cohan Gallery, New York, The artist’s fee is supported by the Mondriaan Fund (from the Experimental Regulations)

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Identifier: KIM-EXH-2274; 19_3
Type: Exhibition
Date: 2019-01-27/2019-05-05
Temporal Coverage: 2019
Publisher: Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art
Spatial Coverage: Rotterdam
Language: en
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Rights Holder: Kunstinstituut Melly
Creator: Firelei Báez
Contributor: Rosa de Graaf; Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
Source: https://www.kunstinstituutmelly.nl/en/exhibitions/2274-firelei-baez-new-work
depiction: https://www.kunstinstituutmelly.nl/images/fkawdw_007633image.jpg?w=1500
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Exhibition overview Firelei Báez, new work, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 2019, photographer Kristien Daem.
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Firelei Báez, Je bâtis a roches mon langage, 2019, perforated tarp, printed mesh, artificial and real plants; and Errantry (a minor key that alters the structure of the major form within), 2019, acrylic and oil paint and gold leaf on canvas, all courtesy of the artist, James Cohan Gallery, New York, and Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago. Exhibition overview Firelei Báez, new work, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 2019, photographer Kristien Daem.
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Firelei Báez, Je bâtis a roches mon langage, 2019, perforated tarp, printed mesh, artificial and real plants; and For Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur (a reconstituted echo, to be spoken, complete), 2019, acrylic and oil on canvas, all courtesy of the artist, James Cohan Gallery, New York, and Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago. Exhibition overview Firelei Báez, new work, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 2019, photographer Kristien Daem.
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Firelei Báez, Je bâtis a roches mon langage, 2019, perforated tarp, printed mesh, artificial and real plants, courtesy of the artist, James Cohan Gallery, New York, and Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago. Exhibition overview Firelei Báez, new work, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 2019, photographer Kristien Daem.
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Firelei Báez, May 19, 2017, 6:05 p.m. (an idiom playing out its history), 2018, oil, oil stick and graphite on canvas, courtesy of the artist and The Joyner/ Giuffrida Collection; and Re-memory (to be spoken, complete), 2018, oil, oil stick and graphite on canvas, courtesy of the artist and Yael and Eduardo Muller. Exhibition overview Firelei Báez, new work, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 2019, photographer Kristien Daem.
Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
Rosa de Graaf
Firelei Báez