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ADÁL, El Puerto Rican Passport, El Spirit Republic de Puerto Rico: Adál Maldonado, 1994, lithography with photograph in staple-bound booklet, closed: 5 x 3 1⁄2 in. (12.7 x 8.9 cm) open: 7 x 5 in. (17.8 x 12.7 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 2013.19.1, © 2012, ADÁL
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Artwork Details
- Title
- El Puerto Rican Passport, El Spirit Republic de Puerto Rico: Adál Maldonado
- Artist
- Date
- 1994
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- closed: 5 x 3 1⁄2 in. (12.7 x 8.9 cm) open: 7 x 5 in. (17.8 x 12.7 cm)
- Copyright
- © 2012, ADÁL
- Credit Line
- Gift of the artist
- Mediums Description
- lithography with photograph in staple-bound booklet
- Classifications
- Object Number
- 2013.19.1
Artwork Description
Across decades of multimedia work, ADÁL foregrounded music as exemplary of a "Nuyorican" culture that keeps Puerto Rican roots alive in New York, while reinventing them to powerfully contribute to the fabled melting pot of America.
In El Puerto Rican Passport, ADÁL and collaborators emphasize imagination as key to overcoming the colonizing forces that have blocked self-determination for the island. The central manifesto points to forms of creativity that transcend borders, especially music and dance, as evidence of the independence and resilience of an already existent "sovereign state of mind."
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