
THE
EXHIBITION
BANANA cRAZE
Banana Craze is the first major study of how a natural resource such as the banana has shaped the past and the present of a continent, and how this phenomena finds expression through culture. Banana Craze brings together almost 100 pieces of contemporary Latin American artists in which the banana is the main feature. Starting with Cuban photographer Raúl Corrales and his 1960 piece Caballería (The Cavalry), in which a group of men ride on horseback celebrating the revolutionary government’s expropriation of United Fruit Company plantations, Banana Craze stretches to the present day and will continue progressing into the future. An artistic, cultural and philosophical approach is used to analyse these pieces and to allow a greater understanding of how the mass cultivation of bananas contributed to the growth of social inequality in Latin America, changing traditional ways of life and transforming the landscape and environment of the region. Not to mention how the banana trade contributed to the formation of xenophobic, racist, and sexist stereotypes of local inhabitants.
ARTISTS

CHRONOLOGY

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EVENTS
El rey amarillo se viste de pecas café (exhibition)
universidad de costa rica
8 nov - 8 dic, 2022
festival cayeye: universidad del norte (Barranquilla, Colombia)
3-5 may 2022
10:00pm - 5:30pm (GMT-5)
Banana Crimes and consumption: a virtual talk with shana klein
27 april 2022
1:00pm - 2:00pm (GMT-5)
SOBRA y obra:
ONLINE WORKSHOP WITH DANIELA SERRUYA KOHN
24 FEB 2022
2:00pm - 3:00pm (GMT-4)
on banana republics. a lecture in conjunction with plundering the americas: on violence against land and bodies with valeria luiselli
8 nov 2021
3:00pm - 4:30pm (GMT-4)
PUBLICATIONS
BLOG
ACADEMIC ARTICLES
ACADEMIC ARTICLES
NEWS
ENTRIES
LINKS
Duro de Tragar podcast
The Garfinkel Prize in Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities Awards
The Denver Post
Vist Projects
Uninorte FM Estéreo
El Tiempo II
Telecaribe
ADN Barranquilla
El Heraldo II
El Heraldo
Radio Sarandí
El Periódico
El Universal
La Caixa
El Cultural
El Tiempo
RTVE - Camara Abierta
Cadena Ser - La Hora Extra
Hyperallergic II
Hyperallergic I
El País
Queen Sofia Spanish Institute
Artnet Editor's Picks
REFERENCES
- Altendorf, Sabine. “Bananas and Major Tropical Fruits in Latin America and the Caribbean. The significance of the region to World Supply” en Food Outlook. Biannual Report on Global Food Markets, Roma: FAO, 2019.
- Archivo “United Fruit Company Photograph Collection, 1891–1962” en Baker Library Historical Collections de Harvard University. Colección de 75 álbumes fotográficos aproximadamente 10,400 fotografías y negativos que documentan la actividad de United Fruit Company en Centroamérica, Sudamérica, las Antillas y Estados Unidos entre 1891 y 1962.
- Amaya, Jorge Alberto. “La Banana Republic: imaginarios bananeros de la identidad hondureña representados en 100 tarjetas postales” en Hegemonia – Revista Eletrônica do Programa de Mestrado em Direitos Humanos, Cidadania e Violência/Ciência Política do Centro Universitário Unieuro, número 24, julio-diciembre de 2018.
- BananaLink. “The Problem with Bananas.” Consultado mayo 13, 2021. https://www.bananalink.org.uk/the-problem-with-bananas/
OUR TEAM
La fiebre del banano/Banana Craze is a project by Juanita Solano Roa and Blanca Serrano Ortiz de Solórzano.
JUANITA SOLANO
Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá.
BLANCA SERRANO
Project Director at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA)
Thanks
We give thanks to Centro de Investigación CIC de la Facultad de Artes y Humanidades de la Universidad de los Andes for their support in the development of this digital humanities project.
The translation of the texts into English has been made possible thanks to Banana Link’s team of translators. A small not-for-profit organization based in the United Kingdom that campaigns for fair and equitable production and trade in bananas based on environmental, social and economic sustainability.
Traducción de textos: Ann Southwick, Eirian James, Emma Beattie, Hannah Richardson, Hannah Thompson, Helen O’Sullivan, Hollie Davies, Holly Long, Lisa Grobar, Luisa Zuppardi-Smith, Rosie Bowen, Sharon Cowell, Tessa Saville, Tom Castle
Asistentes de investigación: Lorenzo Benavides Medina, Ana María Bran Izaquita, Geraldine Moreno Beltrán, Estefanía Pereira Roa
Diseño web: Toquica
Edición de textos: Tupac Cruz
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