Depresión Tropical

El trabajo de Karlo Andrei Ibarra y Roberto Yiyo Tirado, realizan un cuestionamiento al neocolonialismo ejercido por Estados Unidos sobre el estado “libre” y asociado de Puerto Rico. Ambas obras toman como disparador conceptual el desastre causado por el huracán María en el 2017. Se habla sobre la grave crisis dejada en la isla lo cual ha hecho que se torne en un paraíso fiscal beneficiando a inversionistas foráneos. 

Karlo Andrei Ibarra in the works of Palimpsesto alludes to different layers of information, but in this case paintings, making a mosaic with the memory of architectural spaces affected by this abrupt process of change. Roberto Yiyo, on the other hand, makes aesthetic counterpositions that refer to the double standards and the exoticization of the landscape within the Caribbean tourist market within the framework of the disasters caused by the hurricane.

 

An example of this is the work Hostil (Hostile) which is arranged in a luminous panel like those that usually say hostel. It is a nod to the wave of hospitality in the Caribbean, produced by the aforementioned phenomena, and its relationship or not with the communities that surround them.

Ivan Sikic, through a performance, simulates a working day in which he inflates balloons with the colors of the American flag to fill a room. This is about labor understood as work and the labor it takes to adapt to American culture and society. This performance was accompanied by the paintings included in Depresión Tropical, which depict the process and labor of blowing up the balloons.

Stephanie Williams (Costa Rica, 1987) a través de las piezas de la serie Portadas invita al espectador a cuestionarse sobre las formas de escribir historia a través de enunciados populares y gráficas sacadas de publicidad del siglo XIX y XX. A través de estas piezas nos invita a reflexionar la historia escrita, las fuentes históricas y discursos o ideologías a las que la sociedad está acostumbrada a tomarlas como verdades por el carácter historicista de las fuentes.