MASK OF TRUTH, BODY OF LIES
“Inspired by the 1963 British film Lord of the Flies & the 1976 Cuban film La Ultima Cena, the pineapple herein embodies the fraught qualities of TRUTH and POWER as they relate to the colonial histories of the Americas. The many-legged and winged allusions to 17th century Dutch vanitas in this photograph suggest the colloquial approximation to death and resplendent beauty, which has baptized the Atlantic region in a tragi-poetic romance with the themes of magical realism. ”
IAN DELEÓN (b. 1987, Miami, 2nd generation Cuban/Brazilian) is an artist, writer, and independent curator currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Deleón has exhibited videos, installations, performances, and 2-D work in Cuba, Trinidad, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Barcelona, Berlin, Beijing, Vancouver, and throughout the Northeast of the United States. Currently, Deleón and Tif Robinette are the curators of a monthly live art event in Brooklyn known as PULSAR.