Cómodo, 2020 , digital collage
Cómodo brings together twenty-four archival images from across the African Diaspora, weaving them into a digital collage that engages with a patchwork bedspread from the Afro-Antillean Museum in Panama City, Panama. The bedspread, made of various unrelated patterned fabrics stitched together, reflects the collage technique—different fragments coming together to tell a new story.
In this work, I edit the images focusing on the tonal shifts and textures in the photographs, and rearrange them in no particular order. This process strips the photos of their original context, creating new ways to interpret them—as if rewriting their narrative and offering fresh perspectives. The collage also highlights how the Afro-Antillean Museum, in its effort to represent the Afro-Caribbean experience, blends the unique histories and cultures of different islands and communities into a shared, yet somewhat indistinct, narrative.
Cómodo was part of the Museums through Artists project in which artists were invited to examine their relationship with museums and reflect upon its concept and function. The project was curated by Maylin Pérez Parrado.
Cómodo brings together twenty-four archival images from across the African Diaspora, weaving them into a digital collage that engages with a patchwork bedspread from the Afro-Antillean Museum in Panama City, Panama. The bedspread, made of various unrelated patterned fabrics stitched together, reflects the collage technique—different fragments coming together to tell a new story.
In this work, I edit the images focusing on the tonal shifts and textures in the photographs, and rearrange them in no particular order. This process strips the photos of their original context, creating new ways to interpret them—as if rewriting their narrative and offering fresh perspectives. The collage also highlights how the Afro-Antillean Museum, in its effort to represent the Afro-Caribbean experience, blends the unique histories and cultures of different islands and communities into a shared, yet somewhat indistinct, narrative.
Cómodo was part of the Museums through Artists project in which artists were invited to examine their relationship with museums and reflect upon its concept and function. The project was curated by Maylin Pérez Parrado.
