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FIRELEI BÁEZ, Untitled (Le Jeu du Monde), 2020 Photo: Phoebe d'Heurle.
FIRELEI BÁEZ, Untitled (Le Jeu du Monde), 2020 Photo: Phoebe d'Heurle.
FIRELEI BÁEZ, Untitled (Le Jeu du Monde), 2020 Photo: Phoebe d'Heurle.
FIRELEI BÁEZ, Untitled (Le Jeu du Monde), 2020 Photo: Phoebe d'Heurle.
FIRELEI BÁEZ, Untitled (Le Jeu du Monde), 2020 Photo: Phoebe d'Heurle.

Untitled (Le Jeu du Monde), 2020

Oil and acrylic on printed canvas
105 x 131 3/4 x 1 5/8 in
266.7 x 334.5 x 4 cm
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In this work, Báez overlays a ciguapa figure with lustrous, manipulated hair and floral appendages onto an enlarged reproduction of the 1645 geographical game “Le Jeu du Monde.” The object...
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In this work, Báez overlays a ciguapa figure with lustrous, manipulated hair and floral appendages onto an enlarged reproduction of the 1645 geographical game “Le Jeu du Monde.” The object of the game is to move from what is delineated as the outer edges of the world—Cuba, Mexico, Egypt—to the center (France) by rolling dice and moving each game piece from circle to circle on the map board. The feminine-archetypal ciguapa is a trickster from Dominican folklore who, for Báez, embodies the potential to defy oppressive convention and break through generations of karmic loads. Here, she stands at the center of the defined world, suggesting a rhizomatic alternative to hierarchies of place. Her presence destabilizes the geographic notion of center and periphery.
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Exhibitions

Cleveland Museum of Art - Picturing Motherhood Now: Images for a New Era, on view from October 16, 2021 to March 13, 2022
James Cohan Tribeca, Firelei Báez, March 8 - April 25, 2020
Firelei Báez: Trust Memory Over History, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, October 5, 2023 - February 18, 2024

Literature

Laster, Paul, "Upcycling: 5 Artists Inventively Using Reclaimed Materials," Art & Object, April 6 2020
Sayej, Nadja, "5 New York Galleries Showcase Women Artists In Online Exhibitions," Forbes, April 9 2020
Sheets, Hilarie, "Firelei Báez's Time and Space," Cultured, May 17 2020
Valentine, Victoria L., "On View: Firelei Báez Explores Diasporic Histories, Mythical Figures, and Imagined Realms at James Cohan Gallery in New York," Culture Type, May 8 2020

Publications

Liebert, Emily and Rivera Fellah, Nadiah, Picturing Motherhood Now, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021.

Golden, T., Respini, E., Godfrey, M., Acevedo-Yates, C., & Russell, L. (2022). Firelei Báez: To breathe full and free (D. Norr, Ed.). New York, NY: Gregory R. Miller & Co., pp. 208-9.

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