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At the behest of Creative Time Kara E. Walker has confected: A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant

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Description: At the behest of Creative Time Kara E. Walker has confected: A Subtlety, or the...
TitleAt the behest of Creative Time Kara E. Walker has confected: A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant
Creator nameWalker, Kara
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator roleArtist
Creation date2014
Object typeOther
MaterialsPolystyrene foam blocks, granulated white sugar, water, corn syrup, sugar, molasses, resin
LocationUnknown
SubjectsSugarcane industry--Caribbean Area--HistoryFood--Caribbean Area--HistorySlavery--Caribbean Area--HistoryAfrican American women artists--21st centuryArt, American--Caribbean influences
StatusInstallation view
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1. Bittersweet: Caribbean Diasporas, Transnational Feminisms, and Commodity Consumptions in Victoria Ravelo’s Hidden in Plain View
Elizabeth S. Hawley
Description: Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art
Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art
During a monthlong residency at Locust Projects (Miami’s longest-running alternative art space) in 2021, Victoria Ravelo produced Hidden in Plain View, a series of molten sugar sculptures. Ravelo started thinking through the possibilities of sugar as a material for her art when she was confined to her...
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Elizabeth S. Hawley
PublisherYale University Press
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Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31724&redirecttoanchor=106797
Chapter subject tags:Ravelo, VictoriaSugarcane industry--Caribbean Area--HistoryWomen and domestic labor--Caribbean Area--HistoryCuban American women artists--21st centuryFeminism--Caribbean Area--21st centuryColonialism--Caribbean Area--HistoryFood--Caribbean Area--HistoryVisual culture--Cuban--21st centuryResistance (Philosophy) in artSlavery--Caribbean Area--HistoryCampos-Pons, Maria Magdalena, 1959-Walker, Kara Elizabeth

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