Press Release

Coco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist and writer who explores the politics of gender, race, war, and identity through multi-media productions incorporating large-scale projections, closed-circuit television, web-based live streaming performances with audience interaction, as well as performances that actively engage with audiences. Over the past twenty-five years, Fusco has investigated the ways that intercultural dynamics affect the construction of the self and ideas about cultural otherness. Her work is informed by multicultural and postcolonial discourses as well as by feminist and psychoanalytic theories, yielding art projects about ethnographic displays, animal psychology, sex tourism in the Caribbean, labor conditions in free trade zones, suppressed colonial records of indigenous struggles, and military interrogation in the War on Terror. Much of her recent work focuses on Cuban culture in the post-Communist era.

About the Artist

Across three decades of intellectual and artistic research, Coco Fusco’s work has engaged with and interrogated the complexities of race, colonialism, exile, gender, identity, and the shaping of new societies. A remarkably interdisciplinary artist and writer, Fusco’s significant contributions span performance, video, exhibition practice, archival research, and writing. Her practice frequently reflects on conceptual and embodied existence within socio-political frameworks, plumbing the depths of representation and their effects on cultural memory.

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Also Exhibiting at Mendes Wood DM

About the Gallery
Mendes Wood DM was founded in 2010 by partners Felipe Dmab, Matthew Wood and Pedro Mendes with the intent to exhibit international and Brazilian artists in a context conducive to critical dialogue and cross-pollination. Central to the gallery’s program is a concern for regional difference and individuation while fostering cosmopolitanism and collaboration. Inspired by a belief that artistic practices broaden the scope of human agency and have the power to both touch and change the world, Mendes Wood DM cultivates a program premised on conceptualism, political resistance and intellectual rigor.
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