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Kevin Quiles Bonilla @ Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York


Kevin Quiles Bonilla: A small patch of sand, yet it holds so much
June 20-July 31, 2024

“Curated by Ezra Benus, Baxter St’s 2023 Guest Curatorial Initiative Recipient, the presentation explores themes of colonialism and diaspora. The exhibition will feature photographic installations that invite audiences to consider the role of colonialism in perpetuating states of debility and disablement through cultural extraction, exploitation, and geopolitical instability. As a Puerto Rican artist living between the island and New York, Quiles Bonilla’s works focus specifically on the Puerto Rican diaspora, the long history of colonization, which dates back over 500 years, and the island’s current realities as a U.S. colony. Archival family photographs and materials such as sand, blue FEMA tarps, and beach towels printed with images of life after hurricane disasters, are incorporated into the works and juxtaposed with imagery and rhetoric associated with tourism.”

Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York
126 Baxter St


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