“Caribe por venir” [Caribbean-Yet-To-Come] is the title of a curatorial research platform (see description below) and the forthcoming exhibition at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC), which opens on Friday, August 22. The opening includes a tour with guest curator Arnaldo Rodríguez Bagué. The evening will begin with a happy hour from 7:00 to 8:00pm, followed by the guided tour and a DJ set by CALALU to celebrate the occasion. “Caribe por venir” will be on view from August 23, 2025, to February 1, 2026.
Description: “Caribbean-Yet-To-Come” is a curatorial research platform that explores the multiple relationships between performance, territory, and materiality in contemporary Caribbean art since 2017. It is also the title of the new exhibition at the MAC, which brings together photographs and videos of performances accompanied by drawings, sculptures, objects, texts, and songs that construct an Antillean archive/territory.
These works trace a diversity of body practices carried out by nineteen Caribbean artists and those from their diasporas in the Americas and Europe. Executed across coastal territories located in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Captiva Island (U.S.), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Newfoundland and Labrador (Canada), Chile, and the United Kingdom, the works and shores constitute a transnational archipelago.
The exhibition focuses on how Caribbean island artists establish a multitude of connections with the repertoires of oceanic, telluric, atmospheric, and cosmological agencies that constitute, animate, and immeasurably transit the Antillean territories. The works do not invite contemplation of a mere tropical landscape waiting to be occupied, intervened, and exploited as an inert resource.
Instead, “Caribe to Come” explores a notion of territory that proposes approaching the Caribbean islands as an entity filled with agency, desire, contemplation, thought, and generative will—an entity that is both interlocutor and collaborator of human agencies.
Translated by Ivette Romero. For original information, visit https://www.museomac.org/arte/exhibiciones/Caribe-por-venir and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico on Facebook.