afro-caribbean narratives and art with patricia encarnación

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Patricia Encarnación is an Afro-Dominican visual artist and scholar whose work critically engages with colonial legacies and the socio-cultural layers within Afro-diasporic communities. Focusing on the Caribbean, Latin America, and its diaspora, Patricia explores material culture, collective memory, and cultural identity to challenge and recontextualize tropes of Caribbean and tropical aesthetics.

Patricia's work has been featured in prominent platforms like Documenta 15, the Tribeca Festival Artist Program Award, NADA Art Fair, and Afro Syncretic at NYU. She has also exhibited at the Museum of Latin American Art in California and have been selected twice for The Centro Leon Jiménez Biennial in Santiago, Dominican Republic, earning several prestigious fellowships and awards. We’re diving into her journey as a visual artist, deconstructing cultural narratives, redefining Afro-diasporic art, leading with love, and so much more. 

Note: Portrait courtesy of Patricia Encarnación and Nadia Bautista @misscomplejo

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  • 2:00 Meet Patricia

  • 5:05 Interdisciplinary arts and training in graphic design 

  • 8:15 Natural and Afro-Caribbean influences in Patricia’s work

  • 14:05 Identity, Blackness, and intersectionality, and community 

  • 22:35 Challenges with white institutions in the arts 

  • 33:38 Division and segregation among Black diasporas in the US 

  • 38:35 ⁠Tropical Limerence⁠ and our misunderstanding of love 

  • 50:45 Epigenetics of the Tropics, Showing at ⁠Superposition Gallery at NADA House⁠ on Governors Island, NY

  • 57:45 Legacy, ancestry, and understanding Caribbean history to understand American History

  • 1:00:40 Advice to visual artists

  • 1:03:10 Some of Patricia's favorite things

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