Date

29 May – 12 June 2025

Location

Edgewood Gallery at Yale School of Art / New Haven, United States of America

Description

A Tropical Scene is a group exhibition that examines the visual and epistemic production of tropical subjectivities and spaces through the works of four artists whose practices engage and contest tropicality as both colonial construct and embodied knowledge:

Z.T. Nguyen explores the uneasy corporeal entanglements that straddle and caress desires, diseases, and devotions, embedded in the bodies of tropical subjects; Paulina Moncada interrogates the representational and epistemic politics of tropical landscapes as articulated through cartographic apparatuses and other spatial instruments; Hafsa Nouman studies the temporal and physical dimensions of weathering and corrosion under the climatic regimes of the tropical belt; Ana Cláudia Almeida offers new gestural and material vocabularies of self-fashioning in the key of emancipatory logics that embrace mutability, spontaneity, and fluidity.

Participating Artists

Ana Claudia Almeida (Brazil)
Paulina Moncada (Colombia)
Z.T. Nguyễn (United States)
Hafsa Nouman (Pakistan)

Part of

Tropical Scenes