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Title
CANCELED Conversations in Latinx Art: Firelei Báez
Creator
Department of Visual Art
Publisher
Today@Brown
Date
March 18, 2020
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Rendering her subjects in complex layers of pattern and imagery, New York-based artist Firelei Báez reconfigures visual references drawn from the past to explore new possibilities for the future. By overlapping representational motifs, Báez carries portraiture into a space where subjectivity is rooted in historical narratives as much as it can likewise become untethered by them. In her exuberantly colorful paintings, Báez negotiates identity in relation to overlapping, non-linear cultural and regional histories, combining symbolic cues that span from hair textures to textile patterns, plantlife, folkloric and literary references, and wide-ranging emblems of healing and resistance. Often featuring strong female protagonists, her works incorporate the visual languages of regionally-specific mythology and ritual alongside those of science fiction and fantasy to envision identities as unfixed, and inherited stories as perpetually-evolving.
Rendering her subjects in complex layers of pattern and imagery, New York-based artist Firelei Báez reconfigures visual references drawn from the past to explore new possibilities for the future. By overlapping representational motifs, Báez carries portraiture into a space where subjectivity is rooted in historical narratives as much as it can likewise become untethered by them. In her exuberantly colorful paintings, Báez negotiates identity in relation to overlapping, non-linear cultural and regional histories, combining symbolic cues that span from hair textures to textile patterns, plantlife, folkloric and literary references, and wide-ranging emblems of healing and resistance. Often featuring strong female protagonists, her works incorporate the visual languages of regionally-specific mythology and ritual alongside those of science fiction and fantasy to envision identities as unfixed, and inherited stories as perpetually-evolving.
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