Conversaciones con Manuel

Opening Reception June 1, 4-7pm

Through an autobiographical lens of self-reflection, Conversaciones con Manuel (Conversations with Manuel) invites four, Puerto Rican male artists to establish a conversation with the life and work of the Puerto Rican writer and poet Manuel Ramos Otero (1948-1990). Otero emerged as one of the most important Puerto Rican writers and poets at the end of the twentieth century, and perhaps, its best-known queer writer and poet. The exhibition explores masculinities through the use of imagined cartographies; the mapping of the queer body; desire, the politics of the closet, AIDS, death, feminism, exile, and colonialism (all subjects of importance to Otero’s work).