Presentado por Elvira Aballí Morell

Haremos un recorrido guiado de obras selectas de la exposición: En el horizonte: Arte cubano contemporáneo del Pérez Art Museum Miami. Se abordarán tópicos tales como emigración, relaciones entre los Estados Unidos y Cuba, políticas migratorias, censura y producción cultural en la Isla—desde la pseudo república (1902) hasta nuestros días. 

Elvira Aballí Morell es aspirante a doctorado en el Departamento de Español y Portugués de Universidad de Vanderbilt. Su principal campo de estudio es la literatura y cultura afrohispánica. Su investigación se centra en temas tales como la raza, religión, artes visuales, música y género. Su disertación explora cómo varias artistas y escritores cubanos y de la diáspora cubana de los siglos XX y XXI han (re)presentado la Sociedad Abakuá—una cofradía religiosa y masculina cubana—y cómo los legados coloniales de la Sociedad han dado forma a las prácticas culturales modernas y contemporáneas.


Spanish Language Gallery Talk 
Presented by Elvira Aballí Morell

Saturday, April 16, 3:00 p.m. 
Ingram Gallery, meet at exhibition entrance 
Free to members; admission required for not-yet-members 

Take a guided tour highlighting selected works from the exhibit On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Pérez Art Museum Miami. We will discuss topics such as immigration, US and Cuba relations, cultural and migratory policies, history, censorship, and cultural production in the island—from the so-called pseudo republic (1902) to our time.

Elvira Aballí Morell is a doctoral student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Vanderbilt University. Her main field of study is Afro-Hispanic literature and culture. Aballí Morell’s research interests encompass Latino/a studies, race, religion, visual arts, music, and gender. Her dissertation explores how various twentieth- and twenty-first-century artists and writers of Cuba and the Cuban diaspora have (re)presented the Abakua Society—a Cuban religious and male confraternity—and how the Society’s colonial legacies have shaped modern and contemporary cultural practices.

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