Exhibition

Medicina de Amor (Love Medicine) Gerardo Dexter Ciprian

13 Jul 2022 – 21 Aug 2022

Regular hours

Wednesday
13:00 – 18:00
Thursday
13:00 – 18:00
Friday
13:00 – 18:00
Saturday
13:00 – 18:00
Sunday
13:00 – 18:00

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Medicina de Amor is a solo exhibition of recent work by artist-in-residence Gerardo Dexter Ciprian. Working with archival material, hand-me-down objects, recollections from memory, and folklore

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Medicina de Amor is a solo exhibition of recent work by artist-in-residence Gerardo Dexter Ciprian. Working with archival material, hand-me-down objects, recollections from memory, and folklore, Ciprian conjures the ephemera that animate their migration passage and the Dominican diaspora more broadly. 

At once personal and allegorical, the exhibition draws on a vast wealth of personal stories, riddles, and superstitions the artist has archived over the years as well as objects and images with special significance in the Dominican imaginary. Jabon de cuaba, an iconic soap used for everything from washing your body to cleaning dishes, is reconstituted into bricks from the artist’s Bronx family home; hand-me-down furniture passed down from the artist’s grandparents is transformed into lamps that seem to power themselves—a reference to the power outages prevalent in the Caribbean nation. The works are never circumscribed to any one time and place, and often play on a tension between opacity and legibility—a proxy for the indeterminacy of the shifting ground beneath migration and the inevitable fading of intergenerational memory.

Medicina de Amor borrows its title from one of the most recognizable bachatas from the Dominican Republic by Raulin Rodriguez. Like Biggie’s Juicy to any Brooklynite, Rodriguez’s Medicina de Amor serves as a kind of anthem to all Dominicans anywhere. For Ciprian, their work and practice—part archive & remembrance, part mourning & reconciliation—is akin to medicine that mends the ruptures of migration.

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