Magdalena Campos-Pons
Magdalena Campos-Pons was born in Matanzas, Cuba in 1959. Since 1985, her work has been exhibited in Cuba as well as internationally. Mostly recently she has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Canada, and the 49th Venice Biennale. She teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston.
Magdalena Campos-Pons works with themes of identity (female and racial), familial ties, and the friction of having a home in Cuba and a home in the United States. Compos-Pons works with 20 x 24 Polaroids that create brilliant in color. She works with costumes to address her thoughts on identity. She often places herself in her photographs with an altered identity. She weaves extravagant hair extensions, constructing nests or tentacle-like braids that twist and entangle the artist, while other objects are in her nest of hair.
Magdalena Campos-Pons works with themes of identity (female and racial), familial ties, and the friction of having a home in Cuba and a home in the United States. Compos-Pons works with 20 x 24 Polaroids that create brilliant in color. She works with costumes to address her thoughts on identity. She often places herself in her photographs with an altered identity. She weaves extravagant hair extensions, constructing nests or tentacle-like braids that twist and entangle the artist, while other objects are in her nest of hair.
