CUE Art Foundation: "Lizania Cruz: Gathering Evidence: Santo Domingo & New York City" - 7/22-8/25/21

Lizania Cruz, ¡Se Buscan Testigos! [Looking for Witnesses!] Portrait of a Detective in NYC, 2021. Documentation of happening, dimensions variable. Photo by Neha Gautam. [Image Description: A woman wearing a royal blue jacket, mask, and red high heels stands in front of two storefronts carrying a brown suitcase on a NYC sidewalk.]

Lizania Cruz: Gathering Evidence: Santo Domingo & New York City
Curator-Mentor: Guadalupe Maravilla
July 22 - August 25, 2021

CUE Art Foundation is pleased to present Gathering Evidence: Santo Domingo & New York City, a solo exhibition by Lizania Cruz, curated and mentored by Guadalupe Maravilla. The exhibition is the second chapter in Cruz’s ongoing project Investigation of the Dominican Racial Imaginary, a body of work in which the artist collects and examines public testimonies alongside individual and national archives in order to understand how Dominicans internalize state-sanctioned historical narratives that result in the repression and erasure of African heritage within the Dominican Republic. Throughout the exhibition, Cruz employs personal and national archives and oral histories as a means to question how the creation and acceptance of the nation-state as an institution formulating identity and belonging reinforces systems of white supremacy within the Dominican racial imaginary.

For more information on this exhibition, please click here.