MARÍA MAGDALENA CAMPOS-PONS IN BROOKLYN MUSEUM
María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold is a monographic exhibition at Brooklyn Museum of a visionary voice in photography, immersive installation, painting, and performance. On view since September 16th, 2023.
Spanning nearly four decades of visually engaging artworks, the exhibition explores Campos-Pons’s prescient and sensorial work—transporting viewers across geographies, mediums, and spiritual practices. In her explorations of migration, diaspora, and memory, Campos-Pons draws from her family story to examine the global histories of enslavement, indentured labor, motherhood, and migration.
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Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons (born Matanzas, Cuba, 1959). Red Composition (detail), from the series Los Caminos, 1997. Triptych of Polaroid Polacolor Pro photographs, framed: approx. 37 x 29in. (94 x 73.7 cm) each; approx. 37 x 87 in. (94 x 221 cm) overall. Collection of Wendi Norris.
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Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons. The Right Protection, 1999. Polaroid Polacolor Pro photograph, 24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm). Collection of Francesca Biancacci and Fabio Sbianchi.
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Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons. Floating between Temperature Zones, from the series Un Pedazo de Mar, 2019. Gouache, watercolor, graphite, ink on paper, 25 5&16 x 33 in. Leah Bennett, Private Collection.
The first multimedia survey of the artist’s work since 2007, Behold highlights the artist’s dedication to creating new modes of understanding, as well as her engagement with interconnected historical and present-day challenges. These themes are examined through Campos-Pons’s performance-based practice and centering of Yoruba-derived Santería symbolism, as well as her work with communities in Boston, Cuba, Italy, and Nashville (her current residence).
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Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons. Replenishing, 2001. Composition of seven Polaroid Polacolor Pro photographs, framed: 29 x 25 in each. Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami.
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Installation by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons with sound by Neil Leonard. Madonna Pellegrina – La Viajera, 2006. Carved wood, golden leaf, arnished aluminum grid, video projection (color, sound): 4 min., 50 sec., 11/16 x 49 x 392 in.
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Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons. Classic Creole, 2003. Composition of nine Polaroid Polacolor Pro photographs, framed: 29 x 25 in each.
The exhibition is curated by Carmen Hermo, Associate Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, and Mazie Harris, Assistant Curator, Department of Photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum, with Jenée-Daria Strand, former Curatorial Associate, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum.
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