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Suchitra Mattai & Firelei Báez in Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s to Today: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL

Current and Forthcoming exhibition
19 November 2022 - 23 April 2023
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Suchitra Mattai, An Oceans Cradle, 2022. Vintage Saris Fabric And Ghungroo Bells 10X 15 Small 1172X781. Image courtesy of Michael David Rose.
Suchitra Mattai, An Oceans Cradle, 2022. Vintage Saris Fabric And Ghungroo Bells 10X 15 Small 1172X781. Image courtesy of Michael David Rose.

The 1990s were a period of profound social, political, and economic transformation. From the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc to the rise of transnational trade agreements, the decade’s large-scale shifts ushered in an era of international connectivity and social upheaval. In the cultural sector, art exhibitions expanded and turned global, and dialogues around identity, especially by those who have suffered systemic oppression, were featured front and center in cultural debates. The forces of this pivotal decade also had a major effect on the production, circulation, and presentation of art from the Caribbean.

 

Taking the 1990s as its cultural backdrop, Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today is the first major group exhibition in the United States to envision a new approach to contemporary art in the Caribbean diaspora, foregrounding forms that reveal new modes of thinking about identity and place. It uses the concept of weather and its constantly changing forms as a metaphor to analyze artistic practices connected to the Caribbean, understanding the region as a bellwether for our rapidly shifting times.

 

The exhibition is curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates, Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator, with Iris Colburn, Curatorial Assistant, Isabel Casso, former Susman Curatorial Fellow, and Nolan Jimbo, Susman Curatorial Fellow. It is accompanied by an expansive catalogue featuring scholarship as well as extensive plate sections reproducing exhibition artworks in full color. Authors include Carlos Garrido Castellano, Genevieve Hyacinthe, Aaron Kamugisha, and Mayra Santos-Febres, as well as a roundtable conversation with Carla Acevedo-Yates, Christopher Cozier, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, and Teresita Fernández. The exhibition is designed by SKETCH | Johann Wolfschoon, Panamá.

 

 

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Works
  • Firelei Báez, the soft afternoon air as you hold us all in a single death (To breathe full and Free: a declaration, a re-visioning, a correction) (detail), 2021 Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York. Photo: Stuart Whipps.

    Firelei Báez, the soft afternoon air as you hold us all in a single death (To breathe full and Free: a declaration, a re-visioning, a correction) (detail), 2021 Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York. Photo: Stuart Whipps.

  • Suchitra Mattai, An Oceans Cradle, 2022. Vintage Saris Fabric And Ghungroo Bells 10X 15 Small 1172X781.
    Suchitra Mattai, An Oceans Cradle, 2022. Vintage Saris Fabric And Ghungroo Bells 10X 15 Small 1172X781.
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Installation Views
  • Installation view courtesy of photographer Micheal Davis Rose, Forecast Form: Art In the Caribbean Diasporora,1990s To Today, MCA Chicago, 2022.
    Installation view courtesy of photographer Micheal Davis Rose, Forecast Form: Art In the Caribbean Diasporora,1990s To Today, MCA Chicago, 2022. 
     
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Press
  • Miya Ando, Kumoriyo (A Night When The Sky Is Thick With Clouds And No Moon Or Stars Can Be Seen) July 1 11:21 PM Santa Cruz, 2022 Ink on aluminum composite 41.25 diameter x 1 in.

    Miya Ando & Suchitra Mattai: 6 Art Exhibitions in Chicago to Check Out Right Now

    Xiao Faria daCunha, Urban Matter, January 16, 2023
  • Suchitra Mattai, An Ocean Cradle, 2022. Vintage saris, fabric, and ghungroo bells, 10 by 15 ft. Photo: Wes Magyar

    Suchitra Mattai: Must-See Museum Shows for January

    Art In America, January 2, 2023
  • Installation view of Firelei Báez, given the ground (the fact that it amazes me does not mean I relinquish it) , 2017, MCA Chicago. Photo by Jackie Furtado.

    FIRELEI BÁEZ CELEBRATES THE CARIBBEAN DIASPORA

    Art Basel, December 29, 2022

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