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Born in New York in 1960, Coco Fusco has developed a multidisciplinary career that encompasses video art, performance, writing and education. With commitment and critical reflection, her work examines themes such as cultural identity, colonial power, the representation of the other and human rights, its harsh subject matter balanced with a poetic and evocative aesthetic. This characteristic equilibrium is represented in the exhibition that opens at MACBA on 22 May, entitled I Learned to Swim on Dry Land, the first sentence of the 1957 poetic micro-story Natación (Swimming) by the Cuban writer Virgilio Piñera.
The exhibition is curated by the museum’s director, Elvira Dyangani Ose, and is a project developed in collaboration with El Museo del Barrio, New York, and supported by the Ford Foundation.
The exhibition brings together approximately one hundred pieces in diverse media, grouped into five areas: Cuba as an Empty Square; The Agency of the Other; Power and Prison, Civil Disobedience and Direct Action; and Fusco Archive. The tour offers visitors the chance to immerse themselves in the thought of one of the leading figures of art theory and criticism since the late 1980s, at a time when it has acquired additional relevance given the …
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Image above: El podcast perdido de Aponte, 2025, Mixed media.
