Firelei Báez: Chorus of the Deep

Rebecca Rafferty, City Magazine, May 26, 2023

 

After the museum reopens, its inaugural exhibitions will include “Dreamers’ Quay,'' an immersive multi-channel video installation by Lap-See Sam, a Swedish artist of the Chinese diaspora, in the Gundlach Building’s Ronnen Glass Box Theater. It will also debut a site-specific artwork commissioned from Dominican artist Firelei Báez: a 30-foot-long mosaic based on an Afrofuturist myth about women cast overboard in the Middle Passage thriving underwater, titled “Chorus of the Deep (something ephemeral and beautifully whole, when seen from the edge of one’s vision, too full when taken head on).”

 

 

 

 

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