Marta María Pérez Bravo. No son míos, 2008-2010. © Marta María Pérez Bravo. Courtesy of the artist.
This special Curators in Conversation public program brings together art curators Suset Sánchez and Aldeide Delgado (Guest Curator of The Abyss of the Ocean: Cuban Women Photographers, Migrations, and the Question of Race) to discuss a history of institutional and independent exhibitions that address the problem of race and racism in Cuba. Guided by discussions on curatorial activism, Sánchez and Delgado explore the challenges that Cuban curators face within the current socio-political landscape and the use of social media as a space for civil imagination. Curatorial Fellow Jasmine Chavez Helm joins as the Respondent. CCCADI Executive Director Melody Capote offers Welcome Remarks, and Curator-at-Large Grace Aneiza Ali offers Introductions.
Both English and Spanish versions are available for viewing above.
Curators in Conversation is a series dedicated to critical debate, dialogue, and engagement with curators of color committed to the artistic and cultural production of the Afro-Caribbean and its Diaspora.
Suset Sánchez was born in Havana, Cuba, and has resided and worked in Madrid since 2004. She graduated in Art History from the Faculty of Arts and Letters at Havana University, and received a Masters Degree in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at Madrid’s Universidad Autónoma. Since 2012 she has been part of the research group “Peninsula: colonial processes and artistic and curatorial practices,” which is established at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, MNCARS, in Madrid. Her professional interests are oriented towards art criticism and curatorship.
Aldeide Delgado, a Cuban-born, Miami-based independent Latinx art historian and curator, is the founder & director of Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA). Delgado studies, publishes on, and curates from feminist and decolonial perspectives on crucial topics of the history of photography and abstraction within Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx contexts. Delgado is the Guest Curator of CCCADI’s digital exhibition The Abyss of the Ocean: Cuban Women Photographers, Migrations, and the Question of Race.
Jasmine Chavez Helm, CCCADI Curatorial Fellow, is a curator, podcaster, and archivist of Mexican and Afro-Indigenous Nicaraguan descent. She currently serves as the Program Administrator for The Latinx Project at NYU. She grew up in La Puente, CA, and New York City. Helm earned her BA in Art History from Cal State University, Fullerton, and her MA in the Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice program at FIT. She is the founder of the digital humanities project @recuerdosdenicaragua, which archives the dress and material culture of the Afro and Indigenous communities in the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua and Honduras.