Artwork Details
A-P: 28-3/4 x 25-3/8 x 1-1/8 in. (each, framed, ultraviolet light filtered acrylic) 116-1/2 x 104 x 1-1/8 in. (installed)
Accession NumberIMA Business Group Art Acquisition Fund
CopyrightPrints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color PaletteMaria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Brookline, Massachusetts; purchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2004.
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons’ photographic work considers the intersections between photography, painting, sculpture and performance. The artist constructs environments using paintings and sculptural elements and then works with assistants to photograph herself within the newly constructed landscape.
In her multimedia works, Campos-Pons looks to her identity as a Cuban-born black woman living in the United States to explore such issues as exile, personal and national identity and cultural hybridity. In Elevata, the artist has situated herself within the fragmented whole of an invented landscape. The work reflects the artist’s diasporic and multifaceted identity, while also communicating a lineage of separation and displacement that begins with the transatlantic slave trade and continues with her own relocation to the U.S.
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
María Magdalena Campos-Pons
The J. Paul Getty Museum
February 18, 2025 - May 4, 2025
Sugar: Commodity and Confection in Art
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
February 18, 2022 - August 21, 2022
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Everything is Separated by Water
Bass Museum of Art
September 21, 2007 - November 12, 2007
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