The show necessarily touches on painful subjects—a tabletop installation by gabriella n. báez, ongoing since 2018, is a moving tribute to her father, who took his own life—as the inspired. No existe un mundo poshuracán: puerto rican art in the wake of hurricane maria is organized to coincide with the fifth anniversary of hurricane maria—a high end category 4 storm that hit puerto rico on september 20, 2017. the exhibition explores how artists have responded to the transformative years since that event by bringing together more than fifty artworks made over the last five years.
Borrowing its title from the poetry of raquel salas rivera, no existe un mundo poshuracán: puerto rican art in the wake of hurricane maria, currently on display at the whitney museum, assembles a broad array of artworks by puerto rican artists responding to hurricane maria. the critical purview of the artworks is kaleidoscopic, using hurricane maria as a catalyzing nexus to address various. Made between 2017 and 2022, these works seek to analyze the cracks left by the storm in the very structure of puerto rico's politics, culture, and society through painting, video, installation, performance, poetry, and neverbefore seen commissions. no existe un mundo poshuracán—a verse borrowed from puerto rican poet raquel salas rivera—is the first scholarly exhibition focused on puerto. Although the diaspora documented in the whitney show is more recent, puerto rican artists continue to unpack these complicated burdens of displacement. ‘no existe un mundo poshuracán: puerto rican art in the wake of hurricane maria’ is on view at the whitney museum of american art, new york, until 23 april. Book review of no existe un mundo poshuracán: puerto rican art in the wake of hurricane maria edited by marcela guerrero. whitney museum of american art, 2023. 127 p. ill. isbn 978 0 300 26673 3 $45.00. reviewed may 2023 by christine rosa, access services librarian and art librarian, california institute of the arts, [email protected].
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