No Seasoning: the artworks from seven Afro descendant Cuban Outsider Artists
No Seasoning is a historic group exhibition to be held at the Copperbridge Foundation in North Miami. Integrated by seven Afro descendant Cuban Outsider Artists, this is the first of its kind
to be shown in this city.
Curated by Elvia Rosa Castro, the exhibit intends to highlight the severe and overlapping stigmas that the featured artists are subject to, racial discrimination on one hand, and the prejudice that comes due to their fragmented existence, outside cultural norms, on the other. Therefore, they all live in exceedingly
vulnerable conditions and systemic disadvantages.
Included in this Art Exhibition are Pedro Pablo Bacallao, Gloria de a Caridad, Misleidys Castillo, Isacc Crespo, Daldo Marte, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, and Martha Iris Pérez. From collage, drawing, sculpture, and photography, this unique exhibition brings together an intriguing yet powerful and diverse
picture of the resilient, exceptional, and non stereotypical way of dealing with their reality. With No Seasoning, the curator proposes an unfamiliar scenario, a Ten-Minute Stop, a breath of pure air
and authenticity in a world filled with standardization and marked
by censorship, and whose dominant logic is still based on rigid social conventions, logocentrism, and all forms of colonialism.
This is an exhibition of “radical nakedness” in the sense of chonesty, transparency, and absence of “socio-cultural rituals and cult rituals”.
The artworks included in this show come from the NAEMI Collection (National Art Exhibitions of the Mentally Ill).