NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The Frist Art Museum will host “María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold,” a comprehensive exhibition showcasing the Cuban-born artist’s work across photography, installation, video, painting, and performance. This extensive display, organized by the Brooklyn Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum, will be available at the Frist’s Ingram Gallery from September 27, 2024, to January 5, 2025.
“Behold” is the first major survey of Campos-Pons’s career since 2007, featuring both seminal pieces and new works, including a multimedia series making its U.S. debut. The exhibition will present over 50 detailed artworks, sketchbooks, and performance documents, reflecting on themes of enslavement, labor, motherhood, migration, and race through her personal and familial experiences. An audio guide will include Campos-Pons’s commentary on selected pieces.
Frist Art Museum chief curator Mark Scala lauds Campos-Pons for her powerful storytelling, noting her ability to address family bonds, spiritual connections, and critiques of colonialism and racism. Born in Matanzas, Cuba, in 1959, Campos-Pons’s art incorporates Santería symbolism and draws on her diverse experiences in Boston, Italy, and Nashville, where she has held the Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair Professor of Fine Arts at Vanderbilt University since 2017. The Frist previously featured her work in the 2011 exhibition “Journeys,” which examined the transatlantic slave trade and her family’s role in the sugar industry.
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