Caribe Hostil

Working in installation, photography, and sculpture, Yiyo Tirado has developed a body of work that problematizes our relationship with the tourism industry. Tirado examines the implications of a tourism-based economy for the Puerto Rican landscape, and how it is consumed and transformed for others. In Caribe Hostil, Tirado alludes to an emblematic architectural project that was deeply intertwined with the development of a modern Puerto Rico: the construction of the Caribe Hilton hotel. Here, Tirado appropriates the hotel’s typeface to reject the discourse of unconditional hospitality.