Firelei Báez: Feet squelching on wet grass, nourished by uncertaint spans two floors with new paintings, works on paper, and large-scale bronze sculptures extending Báez's engagement with colonial legacies and the spiritual reverberations of the African diaspora. The centerpiece, View of Nature (2026), stretches eight panels across an entire wall, reworking an 1852 climate engraving into a liquid, atmospheric palimpsest where taxonomic structure flickers beneath layered foliage and light. Two towering bronze ciguapas — female tricksters of Dominican folklore adorned with real feathers and sculpted foliage — kneel and coil under the tension between history's weight and the possibility of freedom. Upstairs, monumental works on paper shift toward the cellular and cosmic, demanding slower, sensation-based reading.
