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MARÍA MAGDALENA CAMPOS-PONS (1959 - ) Untitled.
Color photo lithograph and pulp painting on handmade paper, 1999. 508x457 mm; 20x18 inches. Signed, dated and numbered 5/14 in pencil, lower edge. Printed with Gail Deety and Randy Hemminghaus at the Brodsky Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Rutgers University, with the printer's blindstamp, lower left. From the series Sagrada Familia (Holy Family), 2000.
Another impression is in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Untitled and its overarching series, Holy Family is Campos-Pons' exploration of dichotomies - black/white, Cuba/America, Africa/Europe - and the hybridity of their outcomes.
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. She trained at the Escuela National 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.
