Firelei Báez: To See Beyond Its Walls (and access the places that lie beyond)

A solo site-responsive installation by Firelei Báez (b. 1981, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic; lives and works in New York), "To See Beyond Its Walls" combined a large-scale painting of a female figure with a reimagined interior of Sans-Souci Palace (1813) in northern Haiti, tracing conflicted histories and current political contexts of Hispaniola (the shared island of the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and America.

On view at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, August 2017–June 2018.