Baladas debuts a series of paintings by Armig Santos that explore the artist’s personal and pastoral relationship to the islands of Puerto Rico, drawing upon historical, archival, and ecological sources. With the exhibition’s title, Santos nods to José Luis González’s 1978 novel Balada de otro tiempo (Ballad of Another Time), which remains a significant representation of traditional farming—or campesino—culture in Puerto Rico. Each a ballad to Puerto Rico, the paintings hold the past up against the present.
