CARIBE FRACTAL / FRACTAL CARIBBEAN OPENING RECEPTION

Tue, December 15, 2020 5:00 PM - Tue, December 15, 2020 6:30 PM at Virtual

Join us for the Opening Reception of CARIBE FRACTAL / FRACTAL CARIBBEAN!

CARIBE FRACTAL / FRACTAL CARIBBEAN is an ongoing project by artist José Arturo Ballester Panelli (Ballesta 9), an Afro-Caribbean artist based in Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands. Ballester’s work explores the connections between photography, Afro-Caribbean aesthetics, history and the racial, social and ecological system in the Caribbean and its diasporas. Through a multimedia approach integrating installation, photography, digital design, video, and sound, Ballester examines how struggles and negotiations with climate change shape Caribbean identity. Artworks in the exhibition center the symbolic and aesthetic connections to landscape that Caribbean people maintain, even as increasingly predictable cycles of destruction and renewal disrupt life and prompt diaspora.

José Arturo Ballester Panelli is an Afro-Caribbean artist based in Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands. Ballester is an artist-in-residence with Electric Marronage, with support from MSU's College of Arts & Letters. The exhibition was organized by Dr. Yomaira Figueroa (English) and Stephany Bravo (PhD, English) in collaboration with Tessa Paneth-Pollak and Steve Baibak of the RCAH LookOut.

Bio: José Arturo Ballester Panelli (Ballesta 9) is an Afro-Caribbean artist based in Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands. His work explores the connections between photography, Afro-Caribbean aesthetics, history and the racial, social and ecological system in the Caribbean and its diasporas.

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