In 2010, she co-founded La Ene, an itinerant museum and collection. Marina Reyes Franco is a Curator at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC). Wall installation of embroidered, found fabric, fifteen wall hangings, each 17 × 14 inches (43.2 × 35.6 cm), overall dimensions variable. Custom Velvet Souvenir Wall Hanging, 2022. Video, digital transfer from VHS tape, 4:09 minutes. Las playas son nuestras (The Beaches Are Ours), 1989. Acrylic and glitter on canvas, 96 × 60 inches (228.6 × 152.4 cm). Image credits (left to right, first gallery): Dave Smith. Tropical Is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime will be on view in our galleries until December 17th, 2022. Through video, installation, painting, and sculpture, the exhibition underlines the effects of tourism and finance on subjects including economic policy, self-image, and artistic production. Tropical Is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime investigates the ideas of natural and fiscal paradise, and the geographical coincidence of these concepts within the Caribbean region, where tourism and finance form the “visitor economy regime.” Tropical Is Political features works by 19 contemporary artists from the Caribbean and its diasporas. Join us Tuesday, November 15th, 2022 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm The roundtable discussion will take place in person at Americas Society on 680 Park Avenue, New York, NY. Americas Society is pleased to present the Tropical Is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime Roundtable Discussion, featuring Marina Reyes Franco, Curator of the Museo Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC), in conversation with artists Joiri Minaya, Oneika Russell, and Dave Smith about the effects of tourism and finance on subjects including economic policy, self-image, and artistic production.
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