Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, artist and art
Born 1959, Birth Matanzas, Cuba.
The artist lives and works in Massachusetts, United States.
Style and technique, exhibitions: Installation art, Performance Art, Video,Artist biography, artworks, statement, interview, review, exhibition:
The work of Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons features the same wealth of influences that can be found in Cuba, her native country: elements of ioruba religiosity that have been inherited from Africa, the ethnic multiplicity that constitutes her people…
“…it encompasses a larger story. It reveals a history of survival- of a culture, a religion, and a people- from the oceanic voyage from Africa during the slave trade in the 18th century, to its aftermath in Cuba on the sugar plantations, to the present day in the United States. It is a felt history- not one of the rhetorical facts and figures told through non-spoken, fragmented narratives.”
María Magdalena Campos-Pons, a woman, an expatriate, and a Cuban, makes art about identity and memory…
Identity Could be a Tragedy
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