The Caribbean as an object of desire, of domination, remains latent in the heart of the Western white man. It is forgotten that this is a changing and floating universe and that it is more of a mental construction than a specific region drawn on a map.
Freddy Rodríguez was born in 1945 in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, and was exiled to New York fleeing Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. His work represents this incessant transfer of humanity and objects, and that is why it is part of the program.