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Chicago exhibition of Caribbean contemporary art takes on history and identity

Tropical Zincphony still.

Chicago exhibition of Caribbean contemporary art takes on history and identity

Tropical Zincphony still.

Chicago exhibition of Caribbean contemporary art takes on history and identity

“Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today” is on view at the MCA Chicago through April 23.

Tropical Zincphony still.

   

Featuring 37 artists from the Caribbean diaspora, Forecast Form mixes video, paintings and sculpture to retell and reengage with what and where the Caribbean is, the brutal history of enslavement and colonization, and how identities are formed in the region and beyond.

Reset hears from the curator about the creation of this exhibition and how this region serves as a “bellwether for shifting times” for the rest of the world.

GUEST: Carla Acevedo-Yates, curator of Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today; Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

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