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Melissa Misla | ‘Afro Syncretic’

‘Afro Syncretic’ Is an Art Exhibition Exploring Black Latinidad

If you take a stroll through the most popular art museums, such as the Louvre or the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one thing is blatantly clear: the immense erasure of Black art and artists — even more of the Afro-Latino experience, which is one that can not be detailed in a singular narrative. The same is overwhelmingly true in niche Latino art spaces as well. Although Black artists exist in Latin America and its diaspora, their presence is rarely reflected in mainstream galleries and exhibits. Not unlike other faucets of life and culture, Black references in Latino art tend to be dismissed.

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