Marta Maria Perez Bravo
MARTA MARIA PEREZ BRAVO
(Cuban, b. 1959)
Solo se ve en Suenos II, 2003
Gelatin silver print
20 by 16 in. (50.8 by 40.64 cm)
Framed: 28 by 24 in. (71.12 by 60.96 cm)
Edition: 2 of 15
Signed, titled, dated verso
Marta Maria Perez Bravo is best known for her black and white photography and her recurrent theme of Afro-Cuban Santeria. She depicts symbolic scenarios referring to these myths and rituals of Cuban witchcraft. She includes votive offerings and other elements of popular lore. In her work, Pérez Bravo depicts her body as an altar, a vessel, a gate, a temple or a bird-house, that is, as a metaphor of her dreams and visions.
Her work was represented in the acclaimed exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in 2017, “Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985” which explored the work of Latin American, Chicana, and Latina female artists.