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Native
Fruits, 1992
This piece juxtaposes the patronizing colonialist and racist attitudes
surrounding Columbus and the discovery” of LaCruz (Cuba) which was
manifest in both image and text from the period of the Columbian Exposition
of 1893, with a panorama of contemporary figures from the streets of Havana
in 1984. I digitally assembled this group from several different transparencies
to capture the autonomy, diversity and complexity of the Cuban population
as I observed it in the 1980s, in marked contrast to the figures greeting
Columbus as represented in the historical engraving.
—Excerpt from Artist
Statement
In the collection of The Art Institute of Chicago.
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