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Firelei Báez, Berlin Biennale: Akademie der Künste | Berlin, Germany

Past exhibition
6 June - 9 September 2018
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Firelei Báez 19° 36' 16.89" N, 72° 13' 6.95" W) / (52.4042° N,13.0385° E", 2018 Acrylic, sheetrock, and steel 236 x 354 in 599.4 x 899.2 cm
Firelei Báez
19° 36' 16.89" N, 72° 13' 6.95" W) / (52.4042° N,13.0385° E", 2018
Acrylic, sheetrock, and steel
236 x 354 in
599.4 x 899.2 cm

Kavi Gupta congratulates Firelei Báez on her participation in the 10th Berlin Biennale. Báez has created a site specific ruined architectural façade that combines the coordinates of the Sanssouci palace in Potsdam and the Sans-Souci castle, located in Milot, Haiti as well as a murdered Haitian colonel named Jean-Baptiste Sans-Souci. With this, Báez is referencing how historical events take place in numerous places, not just singular locations. Taking place from June 9 to September 9, 2018 at various locations in Berlin We Don’t Need Another Hero is curated by Gabi Ngcobo with an accompanying curatorial team featuring Nomaduma Rosa Masilela, Serubiri Moses, Thiago de Paula Souza, and Yvette Mutumba.

 

Also featured in We Don’t Need Another Hero is Báez’s piece Those who would douse it (it does not disturb me to accept that there are places where my identity is obscure to me, and the fact that it amazes you does not mean I relinquish it) made from deaccessioned book pages.

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Works
  • Firelei Báez 19° 36' 16.89" N, 72° 13' 6.95" W) / (52.4042° N,13.0385° E", 2018 Acrylic, sheetrock, and steel 236 x 354 in 599.4 x 899.2 cm
    Firelei Báez
    19° 36' 16.89" N, 72° 13' 6.95" W) / (52.4042° N,13.0385° E", 2018
    Acrylic, sheetrock, and steel
    236 x 354 in
    599.4 x 899.2 cm
  • Firelei Báez for Marie-Louise Coidavid, exiled, keeper of order, Anacaona, 2018 Oil on canvas 126 x 208 in 320 x 528.3 cm (wall) antique frame app. 70 x 40 in
    Firelei Báez
    for Marie-Louise Coidavid, exiled, keeper of order, Anacaona, 2018
    Oil on canvas
    126 x 208 in
    320 x 528.3 cm
    (wall) antique frame app. 70 x 40 in
  • Firelei Báez A motor with medicinal function, 2018 Acrylic gauche on paper 90 x 110 in 228.6 x 279.4 cm
    Firelei Báez
    A motor with medicinal function, 2018
    Acrylic gauche on paper
    90 x 110 in
    228.6 x 279.4 cm
  • Firelei Báez I write love poems, too (The right to non-imperative clarities), 2018 Acrylic, ink, and chine-collé on deaccessioned book pages 96 x 224 in 243.8 x 569 cm
    Firelei Báez
    I write love poems, too (The right to non-imperative clarities), 2018
    Acrylic, ink, and chine-collé on deaccessioned book pages
    96 x 224 in
    243.8 x 569 cm
  • Firelei Báez Index (given the ground one has to actively look away), 2018 Acrylic gauche on paper 90 x 180 in 228.6 x 457.2 cm
    Firelei Báez
    Index (given the ground one has to actively look away), 2018
    Acrylic gauche on paper
    90 x 180 in
    228.6 x 457.2 cm
Installation Views
  • Fireleibaezberlinbiennale 1
  • Fireleibaezberlinbiennale 2
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Press
  • Firelei Baez Berlin Biennele 2018

    ARTIST LIST FOR 10TH EDITION

    E-Flux, April 25, 2018

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