Las Nietas de Nonó
Preparasyon ke mankai fiwa ba la guerra (2021), 2019-2021
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Preparasyon ke mankai fiwa ba la guerra is a multimedia project of fictional autobiography. In this current piece, it includes photography, sound, and text. The project arose out of a performative exploration in the artist’s residency CRITICAL BREAKS at Hi Arts in Harlem, NY (2019). For Visualizing/Performing Blackness in the Afterlives of Slavery: A Caribbean Archive, we realized a photographic series in a collection center of the neighborhood of San Antón, Carolina that manifests the displacement and accelerated industrialization of our community. The landscape of our familial plots of land, cultivated by our ancestors, changes dramatically with the takeover of these grounds by the metal industry, water extraction, automotive residues, and the accumulation of used tires. In this dimension, we explore the dynamics of environmental racism. With this scenario of the tire center, we present the characters of Ayín and Yenza as they travel in time to detect the magnitude of the problem of accumulated tires in the community of Guaru.
Las Nietas de Nonó
Carolina, Puerto Rico
The afro-diasporic sisters mulowayi and mapenzi are Las Nietas de Nonó. In their creative process, they evoke ancestral memory through personal archives. Their practice incorporates performance, found objects, organic materials, ecology, fiction, video and installation. In 2016, they created Ilustraciones de la Mecánica, a multimedia installation commissioned by the 10th Berlin Bienniale and the 79th Whitney Biennial. They have received the United States Artist Award, The Art of Change from Ford Foundation, and the Global Arts Fund from the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. Their art has been shown in the Caribbean, Latin America, the United States, and Europe.
Las hermanas afrodiaspóricas, mulowayi y mapenzi son Las Nietas de Nonó. En su proceso creativo, evocan la memoria ancestral mediante archivos personales. Su práctica incorpora performance, objetos encontrados, materiales orgánicos, ecología, ficción, video e instalación. En el 2016, crearon Ilustraciones de la Mecánica, una instalación multimedia comisionada por el 10mo Berlin Bienniale y el 79o Whitney Biennal. Han recibido el United States Artist Award, The Art of Change del Ford Foundation y el Global Arts Fund from the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. Su arte se ha exhibido en el Caribe, América Latin, Estados Unidos y Europa.
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Preparasyon ke mankai fiwa ba la guerra
Las Nietas de Nonó | Carolina, Puerto Rico
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