JONATHAN CARELA
1991, Santo Domingo
Jonathan Carela is a Dominican interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker. His work is informed by personal and shared experiences in the quotidian Dominican landscapes, both urban and rural, mimicking aspects of these environments.
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His artistic practice serves as a ground for self-discovery through questioning human behavior and social structures within the Caribbean. He reimagines environments and social interactions anchored in a discursive exploration of contemporary socio-economical, racial, and identity issues.
Exploring the inherent discomfort of these subject matters, he tears them down in search of resistance and freedom through thought-provoking representations of reappropriated spaces for collective joy and celebration.
Carela’s work has been exhibited across the Dominican Republic, New York and Miami; his work was also recently shown at (RCAH) Michigan State University’s “Unbound” exhibition created by The Diaspora Solidarities Lab.