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Art to Remind Us of Who We Can Be

Imna Arroyo Cora


 

Travesías/Crossings



Imna Arroyo Cora’s “Travesías/Crossings” is presently on view at Museo de las Americas (Old San Juan, Puerto Rico). Curated by Humberto Figueroa, the exhibition opened on Saturday, October 14, 2023.


This passage is taken from the Museo de Las Americas website.


Travesías/Crossings presents more than forty years of artistic production by Imna Arroyo Cora who began her studies at the School of Plastic Arts in Puerto Rico and completed them at the Pratt Institute in New York and Yale University in Connecticut. The exhibition brings together a series of installations made at different times, which evoke the artist’s quest to connect with and honor her ancestors. This exhibition constitutes the first time that Imna Arroyo Cora presents an exhibition of graphic and sculptural work in Puerto Rico.


Travesías/Crossings features the curatorial work of Professor Humberto Figueroa Torres, who is also in charge of the design of the exhibition, the critic and art historian of the Caribbean, Professor Yolanda Wood, and the curator and collector Benjamín Ortiz.


Regarding the theme that inspires Arroyo Cora’s work, Professor Figueroa Torres tells us: “It is the Antillean and American religiosity, with its wealth of forms and ceremonies, which serves as a nutritional source for the artist to climb in her imagination. The creation of engravings for prints on fabric and paper leads her to modeling with clay and paper and to the construction of sculptures and objects with an environmental tone displayed in installations.”


On the other hand, the critic and art historian of the Caribbean Yolanda Wood expresses in her writing: “ These territories of enunciation have been selected by the author to revere her humble origins, her condition as a woman and as a black woman, also committed to all those chapters. of his life to break a pre-existing logic and build a discourse with critical and anthropological perspectives .


“Nature informs my experience and search for identity, whose objective is the recovery of my spiritual and cultural heritage. In my facilities I strive to honor ancestors and recognize the indelible mark they have left on the lives of their descendants, as well as the overall cultural landscape. My work explores the different manifestations of nature, spirit and beliefs of African ancestors; gives voice to their stories, activating both physical and spiritual spaces,” said artist Imna Arroyo Cora about her work.



See the original text here, on the Museo de Las Americas website.


Read the artist’s statement here.


See the artist’s website here.




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