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This image shows the installation of “Babalú-Ayé y La Negra del Hospital” (2022) at the Fridman Gallery in New York. In a dark room, there are three large panoramic projections on adjacent walls surrounding a small sculpture composed of cinder blocks decorated with cowrie shells placed in the off-center right side of the gallery. The video, still on the left side, shows a Black woman with a white headpiece with cowrie shells looking directly at the viewer. In the center there is a figure dancing in the middle of colonial architecture structures. The image to the far right shows three figures dressed in ceremonial attires that display Black diasporic culture. One of the figures is sitting on a rocking chair while the other two people stand facing forward.

Bearing Her to the Present:
Yelaine Rodriguez and the Un-Ghosting of Afro-Dominican Identity

María Elena Ortiz

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