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TROPICARIBASTRAL

Solo show 2025 - MAM (Museum of Modern Art), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

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The tropical… the Caribbean… are themes that artists have explored for years—and now more than ever—though almost always from two extremes: the colonial or the decolonial. With Tropicaribastral, I like to offer an abstract, subtle, and intimate perspective, charged with emotion, while also revealing the sociopolitical backdrop of the exoticism imposed upon our natural resources to justify exploitation and systematic dispossession, especially of our beaches and natural resources along our coasts.

Tropicaribastral encompasses a kind of Caribbean-tropical DNA, tinged with nostalgia, because for those of us who migrate, this feeling is inescapable. Yet nostalgia does not overshadow the vast and magnificent gift that migration has given me—a gift that persists and subtly manifests in every work.

With this body of work, I seek to give form to essential elements of my identity. May these pieces be a point of convergence from which I can affirm: I am spirit; I am soul; I am love; I am body; I am Caribbean; I come from the tropics and I am an immigrant.

 

Monica Ferreras De la Maza

2024, Basel, CH

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