ADÁL (Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico)

ADÁL : MindFictions : o los exiliados de la realidad / Raquel Torres Arzola, ensayo crítico.

Primera edición.

San Juan, Puerto Rico : Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico, [2018]

©2018

95 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 31 cm

Adal Maldonado (ADÁL) is a prolific, self-identified Nuyorican (portmanteau referring to Puerto Ricans living in New York) photographer whose work centers around questions of displacement and identity. Curated by art scholar Raquel Torres Arzola, Mind Fictions is the first retrospective exhibition of ADÁL held in Puerto Rico, covering over 40 years of fruitful work of this distinguished artist whose production includes photography, art actions, theater and installations. The exhibition brings together an extensive body of photographic and objectual work of some 170 pieces that evidences a brilliant strategic constancy in the use of wit, humor and imaginative acuity that characterize ADÁL; resources that allow you to subversively and suspiciously address the connections between the world of ideas, the world of the image and the world of objects as containers of symbols. According to the guest curator, "ADÁL asserts itself as a nuyorican in exile, as an existentialist jíbaro immersed in a historical moment marked by conflict and social activism in the United States and impacted by the continuous displacement between island coloniality and continental marginality. He has consequently developed an extensive work that deterritorializes essentialisms, deconstructs identity symbols and invites the multiplicity of subject positions. It denounces the invisibility of migrants and minorities to invite us to assume critical positions that enable views as radical as avant-garde towards greater social and political integration.".

MindFictions : o los exiliados de la realidad

Spanish; English

November 30, 2023

Includes bibliographical references.