{"id":8096,"date":"2019-05-04T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=8096"},"modified":"2019-05-04T06:13:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T10:13:19","slug":"firelei-baez-at-james-cohan-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/04\/firelei-baez-at-james-cohan-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Firelei Baez at James Cohan Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under a recreation of the night sky as it appeared at the start of the Haitian Revolution, Firelei Baez presents a dramatic installation at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamescohan.com\/exhibitions\/firelei-baez\"> James Cohan Gallery<\/a>\u2019s Lower East Side space featuring empowered female figures who assert their presence in the gallery and in history.\u00a0 Wearing a tignon that refers to the 18<sup>th<\/sup> century legal requirement for African-diasporic women to cover their hair, this casually posed yet regal figure lacks a mouth yet speaks with her eyes.\u00a0 (On view through June 16<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8097\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8097\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=8097\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8097\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8097\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/firelei_baez.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/firelei_baez.jpg 2289w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/firelei_baez-101x150.jpg 101w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/firelei_baez-269x400.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firelei Baez, installation view of A Drexcyen Chronocommons (To win the war you fought it sideways) at James Cohan Gallery on the Lower East Side, April 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under a recreation of the night sky as it appeared at the start of the Haitian Revolution, Firelei Baez presents a dramatic installation at James Cohan Gallery\u2019s Lower East Side space featuring empowered female figures who assert their presence in the gallery and in history.\u00a0 Wearing a tignon that refers to the 18th century legal &hellip; 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