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2023 Promo Taveras Quisqueyanas Valientes Full
1media/Promo_Taveras_Quisqueyanas - Aya Taveras_thumb.jpg2023-04-13T18:28:52+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a0842Blue background with yellow letters, title in Spanish "Quisqueyanas Valientes: Bienvenidos a Nuestra Sala" accompanied by the words "An Oral History Experience". The image is an orange circle with a reproduction of a living room, including a yellow couch, a brown and yellow chair, a brown and green coffee table with a figure on top, a brown side table with a plant on top, a painting hanging above the couch depicting a seemingly similar room. The walls of the living room are blue with green squares and there is a window to the left with orange curtains and a visible tree top.plain2023-04-13T18:30:56+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
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1media/Promo_Taveras_Quisqueyanas - Square.jpgmedia/Promo_Taveras_Quisqueyanas - Aya Taveras.jpgmedia/Promo_Taveras_Quisqueyanas - Square.jpg2023-04-07T16:36:33+00:00Quisqueyanas Valientes: Bienvenidos a Nuestra Sala (2023)15Hear counter-narratives of Dominican womanhood on their termsplain2023-05-18T17:33:16+00:0018.7357, -70.162740.7967, -73.9684Aya Taveras01/01/1960-12/31/1969
By Aya Taveras
This exhibit, inspired by the 2020 "Mujeres de Abril" collection by visual artist Lourdes Bernard, created a container for the reflections of Dominican women who lived through the 1965 U.S. invasion of the island. The "sala" is a space that organically holds the firsthand accounts of Dominican women across generations. In this context visitors heard their impressions of Dominican womanhood--a set of narratives that add nuance to what is predominantly told as a singular narrative of machismo and repression.
In this in-person exhibit visitors were invited to listen to the accounts of Dominican women on the under-represented stories of the revolutionary femme-identifying "Mujeres de abril" and how this group's legacy--among others--may have informed their beliefs and attitudes about their own identities. Visitors engaged directly with the artifacts within the sala as vehicles for these oral histories.
Note: This in-person exhibit was open by invitation only. For more information about the project, contact Aya Taveras at at3719@columbia.edu.