Black art is currently on prominent display in Puerto Rico’s San Juan neighborhood of Santurce.
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Some of Velázquez’s work is on display as part of the four separate galleries that make up “Puerto Rico Negrx.” In his Afro Boricua altar series, he painted abstract imaginings that evoke the spirits of famous Afro Puerto Ricans and pairs them with the names of Africa’s supernatural orisha gods.
Shellyne Rodriguez looks at how the worship of Yoruba orishas was folded within Christianity in her work, “Las Potencias Anticoloniales en Puerto Rico/The Anticolonial Powers in Puerto Rico.” As the description of this piece points out, “In the center of the work, Carmen Reyes, a 96-year-old Carolina native, holds a machete symbolizing resistance rather than the passivity and martyrdom represented by the crucifixion of Christ in the original image.
In contrast, the complexity of Afro Puerto Rican life is on display on the walls of “La Trampa/The Trap,” an installation by Edgardo Larregui. The artist interviewed, photographed, and recorded the poems and songs of the Afro Puerto Ricans who fish for blue land crabs. Walking inside the installation is a means of entering the world of an Afrodescendant culture that is currently changing due to strains from the threat of climate change.
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