Moving Images From the Caribbean
Thursday, March 7 • 7–9PM
Free, Optional RSVP
The Bronx Museum invited AIM Fellows participating in Bronx Calling: The Sixth AIM Biennial (Part One) & (Part Two) to further engage the public in the exhibition and their respective artistic practices by curating events or activities.
This program comes to the Museum from 2020 AIM Fellow Yelaine Rodríguez, whose installation La Hija de Shango: Altars for Shango is currently on view in Part One of The Biennial.
The event is free and all are welcome to attend. Please let us know if you plan on coming with an RSVP!
The artist provided this description of the program:
Join us this upcoming Thursday, March 7th, from 7-9 PM for the 6th edition of Ojos Caribe, which will focus on Afro-syncretism at The Bronx Museum as part of Bronx Calling: The Sixth AIM Biennial.
Ojos Caribe (@ojos.caribe) is a curatorial initiative and platform currently operating as an itinerant video screening. This collaborative curatorial project was founded by artists and scholars Yelaine Rodriguez (AIM Fellow 2020), Patricia Encarnación, and Gina Goico (AIM Fellow 2019).
Ojos Caribe showcases moving images created from the Caribbean, both insular and continental, and its diasporas. We emphasize the power of an intersectional approach when exploring pluricultural narratives through the insightful lens of artists and filmmakers, inviting a deeper exploration of the diverse political, bodily, spiritual, and territorial landscapes in the Caribbean and its diasporas.
In this edition, Ojos Caribe will feature the following artists:
Adama Delphine Fawundu – “Cosmic Echoes”
Amanda Tropicana – “Santa Barbara” and “Oya’s Day in Bahia”
Andrea Diaz – “Atabey”
Gina Goico – “Como Se Sana”
Gwladys Gambine & ClaireLaura Flammand – “Manman Chadwon”
Lisandro Suriel – “Ghost Island”
Luis Vasquez La Roche – “La Limpieza (Despojo)”
Maria Magdalena Campo Pons – “My Mother Told Me I am Chinese”
Mitiko Mawon, Jeissy Trompiz, Gregorio Rodríguez – “El Gagá de PIRULO (Teaser)”
Nyugen Smith – “Scrubbing: An Exercise in Erasure”
Steven Baboun – “The Last Haiti: The Moving Portraits”
Ronald Pizzoferrato – “El Santo Negro”
Tina Melo – “Olhos de Sal”
About Yelaine Rodriguez
Yelaine Rodriguez (b.1990) is an AfroDominicanYork artistic scholar, educator, independent curator, cultural organizer, and writer who merges her creative language and academic research within her practice. As a visual artist, Rodriguez conceptualizes wearable art, sculptures, and site-specific installations drawing connections between her research on Black cultures in the Caribbean and the United States. She received her BFA in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design | The New School (2013) and her MA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Museum Studies from New York University (2021). She is currently an Adjunct Instructor at The New School and NYU.
Rodriguez’s curatorial projects include “Radical Elegance” at Longwood Art Gallery At Hostos (2021), “Afro Syncretic” at NYU (2019-2020), “Resistance, Roots, & Truth” at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (2018), and “(under)REPRESENT(ed)” at Parsons School of Design | The New School (2017). From (2015 – to 2018), Rodriguez founded La Lucha: Dominican Republic and Haiti, One Island, an art collective exploring Dominican-Haitian relations through exhibitions, artist panels, and interactive conferences. Residencies include the Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellowship from the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (2017), Wave Hill Van Lier Fellowship (2018), The Latinx Project Curatorial Fellowship at NYU (2019), and The Bronx Museum AIM Program (2020).
Rodriguez has exhibited in various venues internationally, such as ESTAMOS BIEN: LA TRIENAL 20/21, El Museo del Barrio’s (NY) first national large-scale survey of Latinx contemporary art, UNTITLED Art Fair, Photoville, Mexic-Arte Museum, American Museum of Natural History, and Wave Hill in the United States, El Centro Cultural de España and Centro León Biennial XXVII in the Dominican Republic, SurGallery & Critical Distance Centre for Curators in Canada, Wereldmuseum in The Netherlands, and La Escocesa in Barcelona, Spain. Rodriguez’s works feature in CNN, Artsy, EnFoco, Hyperallergic, Vogue, Aperture, and Elle Magazine. Her writing has appeared in ARTnews and academic journals like Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture.
Image: Yelaine Rodriguez with her work Altars for Shango, 2024. Image by Argenis Apolinario.
