Cubans: Post Truth, Pleasure and Pain

10/15/2018

Next week! Hosted by Cubans: Post Truth.... Poster designed by Héctor S. Martínez. Señor Corchea Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) Wake Forest University

09/19/2018

The Pillow Project in Winston Salem is a fact. I’m so happy of seeing this young crowd here, supporting a noble cause and this unique ongoing project in this such a beautiful space! Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA)

09/08/2018

Enorme placer poder contar con este proyecto:
The 34,000 Pillow Project is a national response to immigrant detainment by artists Alejandro Figueredo, featured in the exhibition Cubans: Post Truth, Pleasure and Pain, and Cara Megan Lewis (together known as Díaz Lewis). The artists in partnership with community participants, WFU students and faculty, Sawtooth artists, and SECCA will create pillows from donated clothing from undocumented immigrants and their allies to form a collective patchwork of individual experiences. The pillows will be made into an installation to create awareness of the immigrant crisis and specifically the 34,000 beds that the US Government mandates for detainees. Each handcrafted object will be sold for a donation of $159 — the amount that the government spends daily for detaining an immigrant. All proceeds will go to local organizations that support immigrants. The Pillow Project in Winston-Salem is a joint partnership among the artist collaboration Díaz Lewis, SECCA and Wake Forest University and is supported by WFU Interdisciplinary Performance and the Liberal Arts Center, WFU Latin American and Latino Studies, WFU Department of Spanish and Italian, WFU Center for Global Studies, Sawtooth School for Visual Art, Forsyth County Central Library, The Hispanic League and Christ’s Beloved Community. RSVP for a workshop at SECCA.org. You are welcome to drop in for half an hour or work with the artists for all three hours of the workshop.
Pillow Making Workshops: Wednesday, September 19 4pm to 7pm (Central Library) Thursday, September 20 10am to 1pm (Central Library) Thursday, September 20 2pm to 5pm (Central Library) Friday, September 21,10am to 1pm (Central Library) Friday, September 21,2pm to 5pm (Central Library) Saturday, September 22 12pm to 6pm (Milton Rhodes Arts Center during Fiesta)
Artists’ Talk & Reception: Artists discuss the 34,000 Pillows Project, Monday Sept. 24, 5:30-6:30pm 145 Green Hall, WFU Open to the Public Artists meet with WFU students. Tuesday Sept 25 11:30am-1: 30pm 320 Greene Hall, WFU.
This Project has been coordinated by Professor Linda S. Howe

08/17/2018

Agradecida de poder compartir con ustedes este artículo que en versión impresa reprodujo imágenes de Aimee García, Rocío García y José Bedia .

For such a small country, Cuba looms remarkably large in the history, politics and cultural life of its neighbor to the north. The United States is more than 85 times

08/14/2018

Our current exhibition presents artworks from 19 different Cuban artists. Their works span generations and make use of everything from paint and paper to light bulbs and drop cords.

08/01/2018

Cuban artist Carlos Quintana draws, paints, spits, and pours beer on his canvas to explore African, Cuban, and Eastern religions while questioning the binary logic of modern thinking.
See more of Quintana's work at SECCA.

06/29/2018

Collaborative System, an elaborate series of artworks created by Cuban artist Rafael Domenech, spans the Main Gallery and grounds at SECCA. These artworks call into question ideas of reuse, standardization, and memory.

06/28/2018

The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) will present a talk by guest curators Elvia Rosa Castro and Gretel Acosta about SECCA’s current exhibition Cubans: Post Truth, Pleasure, and Pain. The Curator Talk will take place at SECCA, which is located at 750 Marguerite Drive in Winston-Salem, on Thursday, July 12 from 6 to 8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public and will include a cash bar.

Cuban born Castro and Acosta will discuss their curatorial process, including how they decided which artists to work with, the layout of the galleries and other behind-the-scenes decisions that SECCA visitors rarely get to hear about. Cubans: Post Truth, Pleasure and Pain is one of the first exhibitions in the southeast to examine contemporary Cuban artists, both inside the island and the diaspora and features more than 60 works of art by 19 well-known and emerging Cuban artists. It is a multi-generational, bilingual survey showcasing painters, sculptors, photographers, and videographers as well as multi-media installation and performance artists.

Cubans: Post Truth, Pleasure and Pain is on display at SECCA until November 4, 2018. Visitors to this bilingual exhibition will encounter a range of works of art from provocative, sociological, and documentary style, to depictions of strong sensuality and conceptualism. A younger generation of Cuban artists comment on issues like the dominance of technology and industrial design and use a subjectivity that works against the traditional Western lenses of binary thinking and power, gender, race, and immigration issues.

The artists featured in the exhibition are: José Bedia, Ariel Cabrera, Celia & Yunior, Rafael Domenech featuring Ernesto Oroza, Alejandro Figueredo, Diana Fonseca, Aimée García, Rocío García, Luis Gárciga, Juan-si González, Manuel Mendive, Carlos Montes de Oca, Geandy Pavón, René Peña, Carlos Quintana, Sandra Ramos, Grethell Rasúa, and Yali Romagoza.
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) Señor Corchea Héctor S. Martínez Mariela Perez-Simons Mari Isasi-Diaz Clare Fader Flora Isasi Gloria Ysasi-Diaz Julie Edelson Abbie Gretel Acosta Ben Brooks Abby Bowman

06/27/2018

El paisaje y su dueño, de Manuel Mendive

06/24/2018

José Bedia Piango piang... at Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA)

06/23/2018

Apoteosis, by Ariel Cabrera. Detail

06/23/2018

Germany flag colors in my hand with Liborio in Sandra Ramos video at Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA)