Ojos Caribe

Video series organized by Ojos Caribe, 8th edition
2022-2024
Total run time: 53:22 minutes

The 8th edition of Ojos Caribe delves into Radical Love and Limerence within the Caribbean region, examining the prisms of origins, identity, family, the body, and the land.

Drawing inspiration from Edwidge Danticat's "Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work," which celebrates those who dare to "strike a dangerous balance between silence and art," this edition of Ojos Caribe showcases artists fearlessly embracing this ethos. In our current political climate, where the discourse is dominated by themes of anti-racism, anti-colonialism, and anti-capitalism, love, unity, and community serve as the antidotes to hatred.

Ana María López
Viviente
2023
4:30 minutes

Forgotten Lands
Tainos Studies
Dalissa Montes De Oca
Origins
2021
5:37 minutes

Gina Goico
Amor es Verbo
2021
1:46 minuets

Gwladys Gambine & ClaireLaura Flammand
Maman Chadwon
2022
10:13 minutes

Natalia Almonte
LIBRE
2024
3:56 minutes

Patricia Encarnación
Limerencia Tropical III: Martinica
2022
2:32 minutes

Thelma Vanahí
Fragmentos de una Sanjuanera
2024
2:52 minutes

Vashni Korin
Negra, Soy Bella
2023
18:19 minutes

Yelaine Rodriguez
Mal De Ojo
2022
2:42 minutes

About

Ojos Caribe is a curatorial endeavor and platform which has functioned as an itinerant video screening event since 2022, co-founded by artists and scholars Patricia Encarnación, Yelaine Rodriguez, and Gina Goico. Ojos Caribe showcases moving images created from the Caribbean, insular regions, and its diasporas. While Ojos Caribe looks at the Caribbean region, the platform understands Caribbeanness as an expansive and capacious descriptor that moves beyond geographical and geopolitical coordinates. With four editions, the festival curates an insular lens that comments on and documents the regions with a critical, cultural-political, and sensitive eye. Ojos Caribe insists on the power of a nuanced and perceptive approach when exploring pluricultural narratives through the insightful vision of artists and filmmakers, inviting a deeper exploration of our diverse political, bodily, spiritual, and territorial landscapes in the Caribbean and its diasporas.

Patricia Encarnación (she/they) is an Afro-Dominican interdisciplinary artivist and scholar whose work challenges colonial tropes in Caribbean culture through an anti-colonial lens. Encarnación has participated in residencies, including Smack Mellon as a Van Lier fellow and Silver Art Projects at WTC, and has been recognized at the NALAC Fund for the Arts, El Centro Leon Jiménez Biennial, and Tribeca Artists Award Program. Encarnación exhibited at Documenta 15th, WPA, MOLAA, and the NADA art fair while engaging in curatorial practices at Centro de la Imagen CDMX and Bronx Museum, ChaShama, WOPHA Miami, and alternative gallery spaces in NYC, Miami, and the Dominican Republic. 

Gina Goico is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and scholar. Their work navigates Dominican identity, rebellions and resistance. They have a diverse body of work ranging from embroidery to installations, and performance.

Goico was a Van Lier Fellow and artist in residence with Smack Mellon. They also participated in the AIM fellowship at The Bronx Museum of the Arts; and were a CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Fellow. Goico holds an AAS in Fine Arts from Altos de Chavon, a BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons, a MA in Arts Politics from NYU, and is a PhD student in Performing and Media Arts at Cornell.

Yelaine Rodriguez is a Bronx-born interdisciplinary artist, curator, and scholar specializing in Afro-syncretic religions, free from stereotypes and the colonial gaze. She received a BFA from Parsons School of Design|The New School and an MA from New York University. Rodriguez has exhibited in Estamos Bien: LA TRIENAL 20/21, UNTITLED, and Photoville, and at the Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin), American Museum of Natural History (New York), Wave Hill (New York), El Centro Cultural de España and Centro León Biennial XXVII (Dominican Republic), SurGallery & Critical Distance Centre for Curators (Toronto), Wereldmuseum (Rotterdam), and Santa Monica and La Escocesa (Barcelona). Rodriguez’s works have been featured on CNN, Artsy, EnFoco, Hyperallergic, and in Vogue, Aperture, and Elle. Her writing has appeared in ARTnews and academic journals such as Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture.