TIAB VIEWING ROOM: ESPERANZA CORTÉS
Esperanza Cortés, Emerald Tears. 2010-2014. Clay, crystal, glass, metal base & plexi vitrine. 66 x 24 x 50.5 inches.
Curator’s Text:
Esperanza Cortés explores the historical and cultural mosaic of the Americas and the Caribbean, reworking found objects with painstaking and labor intensive detail to capture cultural symbols that act as sites of memory, implementing the human body as a symbol and expression of vulnerability and power dynamics.