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MARÍA MAGDALENA CAMPOS-PONS (1959 - ) Study Polaroid (When I am Not Here/Estoy Allá).
Polaroid print, 1997. 660x546 mm; 26x21½ inches. Signed, titled and dated in ink, verso.
Provenance: acquired from Julie Saul Gallery, New York, private collection, Florida.
This powerful image is one of María Magdalena Campos-Pons' earliest explorations into using large-format Polaroids to create large photography installations. The subject of the series When I am Not Here/Estoy Allá examines dichotomies - Black/White, Cuba/America, Africa/Europe - and the hybridity of their outcomes. In addition, she evaluates the impact of slavery on Black motherhood and religiosity.
María Magdalena Campos-Pons is an Afro-Cuban artist who works primarily in photography, performance, audiovisual media, and sculpture. Her practice is rooted in Cuban culture, gender, sexuality, religion, and spirituality. Campos-Pons trained at the Escuela Nacional de Arte in Havana between 1976 and 1979 and, from 1980 to 1989, attended Havana's Instituto Superior de Arte. She has participated in the Dakar Biennale, the Johannesburg Biennial, the Guangzhou Triennial, the Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Prospect. 4 Triennial, and the Havana Biennial. Her works are held in many museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Perez Art Museum Miami and the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. Her monographic exhibition María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold was at the Brooklyn Museum from September 15, 2023 - January 14, 2024, and will travel to the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University from February 15 - June 09, 2024.
