Make hay while the sun shines by discovering the city’s most compelling artworks this summer, all of which can be found outside of museum walls.
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The ICA Watershed presently features a newly commissioned, monumental sculpture by artist Firelei Báez . In her largest sculptural installation to date, the artistas if they were emerging from Boston Harbor’s sea floor. The Watershed’s location—in a working shipyard and as a trade site and point of entry and home for immigrants over decades—provides a pivotal point of reference.
Báez’s sculpture, on view through September 6, is adapted from the Sans-Souci Palace in Milot, Haiti, built between 1810 and 1813 for the revolutionary leader and first King of Haiti, Henri Christophe I. The Haitian Revolution, led by self-liberated enslaved people against the French colonial government, was an early precursor to the abolition movements of the United States. Once a space of splendor, since an 1842 earthquake, the castle has been an archeological ruin.
Accompanied by an undulating blue expanse overhead—evoking both water and the night sky—this immersive sculptural installation includes a soundscape created from recordings of Boston Harbor and the Caribbean, featuring sounds of the sea and maritime bustling, as well as personal stories of migration.
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