afro-caribbean narratives and art with patricia encarnación

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, the NADA Art Fair, and Afro Syncretic at NYU. She has also exhibited at the Museum of Latin American Art in California and has 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.  Moments:  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 Connect with Patricia: On Instagram Her website