Mixing painting, sculpture, drawing and installation, Firelei Báez places powerful portraits of subjects linked to the African diaspora in a fantastic world suspended in time by imagining fictitious alternative universes dominated by female protagonists. Báez paints on recycled materials, pages of old handbooks, travel journals, biographies. On these surfaces she stratifies the fabric of the past with visions of a newly imagined present, creating a generative and productive space “where the bellicose ledger of the past can make way for new accounts of what we hope to become and where individual viewers can look for themselves.”
