Petrina Dacres’s current book project After-History?: The Heroic Image in Contemporary Caribbean Art analyzes the various ways that Caribbean artists have utilized, critiqued, and redefined the conventions of heroic representation since the 1990s. Within the context of the CCI Fellowship, Dacres plans to complete the introduction to her book while also exploring selected works by artists represented in PAMM’s collection.
Highlighting the cardinal presence of women artists within the Cuban and Caribbean modernism periods, Abel González Fernández’s research project Architecture of “enclosed spaces” attempts to expand the narrative of Cuban modernism art history, not only by reconstructing the modernist ideology that framed the creation of modern objects, but also exploring how women artists situated within it developed their voice and perspective.
Jessica Taylor, a curator and researcher from Barbados currently based in London, engaged in a close study of a selection of works in PAMM’s collection by artists from the Hispanic and English-speaking Caribbean to explore the significance of travel, movement, and cross-border exchange for creative practitioners from the region, and consider the relationship between production and travel in the formation of collections of Caribbean art today.
During the fellowship, Julián Sánchez-González expanded his research on art and spiritualities in the Caribbean by engaging with artworks from PAMM’s collection.
