WE ARE HERE TO SERVE YOU, a traveling exhibition which began as a collaboration between Puerto Rican artist Natalia Almonte and Greek artist Nicole Economides, focuses on connecting artistic practices from\u00a0Puerto Rico and Greece that are confronting similar intangible realities. The artworks on view \u2014 ranging from multimedia video installations and photography to performance and painting \u2014 critically engage with reductive perceptions of Greece and Puerto Rico and infuse ideas of cyclical futility and ephemerality with humor and double meaning, bringing cultural symbols and specificity to activism. They explore the repercussions of being in financial debt to political entities that already control their economies through colonial puppeteering. In debt, but not indebted to, conceptually permeates WE ARE HERE TO SERVE YOU, an intentionally sarcastic title suggesting an assumed foolishness that in actuality reveals our hyperconsciousness.<\/p>\n
Featured artists include: Natalia Almonte & Nicole Economides, Eleana Antonaki, Miguel Luciano, Mar\u00eda del Mar Hern\u00e1ndez Gil de Lamadrid, Elsa Mar\u00eda Melendez, Yiyo Tirado, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, and Adonis Volanakis<\/p>\n
Curated by Natalia Almonte & Nicole Economides, MFA Fine Arts ’19<\/p>\n
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