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In her monumental paintings and installations, the Dominican American artist Firelei Báez (born 1981) creates images bursting with symbols from folktales, colonial occupation, legendary creatures and revolutions. She paints images on top of maps, book pages and found ephemera that combine abstraction and figuration, personal perspectives with grand historical narratives and Caribbean mythology with science fiction. This colorful publication serves as an introduction to Báez's work. The artist discusses how she interrogates powerful concepts such as truth and history throughout her practice. Special attention is paid to her 'palimpsests,' paintings on top of colonial maps or construction plans for colonial architecture, both of which represent the establishment's notion of objectivity. Inspired by Báez's works, poet Warsan Shire and author Katrine Rasmussen Kielsen contribute texts considering the legacy of colonialism.
Foreword -- Maybe We Can Even the Playing Field a Bit: Firelei Báez & Mathias Ussing Seeberg in Conversation -- Fluid Forms of Memory and Power in the Work of Firelei Báez / Marta Fernández Campa -- Three Poems After Firelei Báez / Warsan Shire -- Peroriartorfiga Nunarsuarmi Qeqertat Annersaraat (I Grew Up on the Largest Island on Earth) / Katrine Rasmussen Kielsen -- Works -- Biography.
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Kunstmuseum Woflsburg ; edited by Malou Wedel Bruun, Amalie Marie Laustsen and Mathias Ussing Seeberg ; translation: Sussi B. Jensen (Katrine Rasmussen Kielsen).
This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition "Firelei Báez: Trust Memory Over History", Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 5 October 2023 - 18 February 2024; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, 25 May - 29 September 2024.
One essay translated from the Kalâtdlisut.