Working in multiple mediums including photography and ceramics, Patricia Encarnación examines Afro-Caribbean identity, using the aesthetics she grew up around to interrogate assumptions about her homeland and its people. Born and raised in the Dominican Republic, she now lives and works in New York, where she is completing a master’s degree in Caribbean and Latin American Studies at NYU. She is also an artist-in-residence at Silver Art Projects in Lower Manhattan.
works
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El Negro Detrás de la Oreja (The Black Behind the Ear)
El Negro Detrás de la Oreja (The Black Behind the Ear) is a series of works that aims to enhance Dominican culture by marginalizing racial, sexist, and classist stigmas that disrupt our society.
Through a series of popular objects cast in porcelain and photographs, Patricia creates compositions with minimalist aesthetics interpreting popular Dominican phrases to depict 'Dominicanidad' in a decolonial context.
This project highlights how the culture of the Caribbean tends to be defined through the voices of its colonizers, thus excluding the rich heritage of our African and Taino ancestors.
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Un Traguito Pa Lo Muerto (2021)
Digital Photography. Archival ink on Hahnemühle
24 x 36 in.
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Pan con Aguacate (2020)
Digital Photography. Archival ink on Hahnemühle
24 x 36 in.
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Aguacate 1 (2020)
White Snow Ceramic
8 x 5.5 x 5 in.
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Aguacate 2 (2020)
White Snow Ceramic
8 x 5.5 x 5 in.
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Romo 1 (2020)
Speckled Ceramic
8 x 6 x 3 in.
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Cuela tu Cafe Claro (2021)
Digital Photography. Archival ink on Hahnemühle
24 x 36 in.
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Greca 2 (2020)
Speckled Ceramic
8 x 5.5 x 5 in.