#  Cooper Gallery Opening Reception: "Diago: The Pasts of This Afro-Cuban Present" | Curated by Alejandro de la Fuente  

 



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 **February 1, 2017** 

 06:00PM - 06:00PM EST 

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 **102 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

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Curated by **Alejandro de la Fuente**   
Director, Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center

### Juan Roberto Diago is a leading member of the new Afro-Cuban cultural movement, which has valiantly denounced the persistence of racism and discrimination in Cuban society. This exhibition of twenty-five mixed-media and installation artworks traces Diago’s vibrant career from the mid-1990s, when he began to construct a revisionist history of the Cuban nation from the experience of a person of African descent. It is a history of enslavement and cultural loss, but also of resilience and recovery, the kind of history that is required in this Afro-Cuban present.  


### **Exhibition Reception**   
Wednesday, 1 Feb 2017 6pm  
  
**In Conversation: Roberto Diago with**   
**Curator, Alejandro de la Fuente**   
Friday, Feb 3, 12 noon The Cooper Gallery

### Co-sponsored by the Cuban Studies Program, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

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