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La identidad ambigua, compleja y dual del habitante de Hawái: Banana Tree (Winter), Banana Tree (Summer) de Brandon Ng
Recién llegado a Arizona de Hawái, el artista Brandon Ng se reconoció por primera vez en toda su vida como alguien de color. Su aspecto físico irremediablemente le otorgó la categoría del Otro en un espacio dominado por blancos estadounidenses: sus facciones asiáticas revelaban que él no pertenecía a aquel...
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Miky Fábrega: el banano y Mafalda
A mediados del año 2021 el artista panameño Miky Fábrega realizó dos obras tituladas The Banana Problem y The Banana Solution. Estas fueron realizadas en acrílico sobre lienzo, con dimensiones de 50 x 60cm y de 60 x 70cm. Como un análisis formal se ve que tiene un fondo de...
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 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/
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Banana Company Artwashes Its Bloody Legacy at Art Basel Miami Beach
On November 25, the banana brand Chiquita lit up Instagram with eye-catching yellow stories, offering a chance to win free tickets to Art Basel Miami Beach. The deal was simple: share your email address for a shot at a pair of one-day passes. The next day, the company posted a banana...
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El “Art-Washing” de Chiquita: la bananera se asocia con Art Basel
Juanita Solano es profesora del Departamento de Historia del Arte en la Universidad de los Andes y Blanca Serrano es directora de proyectos en el Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA). Ambas son co-autoras de La fiebre del banano/Banana Craze y doctoras en Historia del Arte por The...
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Best of the bunch: sale of duct-taped banana sparks trend across Miami fairs
The tragicomic saga of Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana is reaching new highs (and lows) at Miami Art Week. Most prominent is the presence of Chiquita itself at Art Basel Miami Beach as a first-time official partner. During the VIP preview, the American banana mega-producer rolled up fruit carts and blue-and-yellow swag to...
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Cynical art-washing: Chiquita Banana is the official sponsor of Art Basel Miami 2024
The presence of Chiquita Banana as an official sponsor introduces a dissonance that does not go unnoticed: can a company with a history of violence become a legitimate promoter of art that has historically questioned it?
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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, Inés Elvira Rocha
Asistentes de investigación: Lorenzo Benavides Medina, Ana María Bran Izaquita, Geraldine Moreno Beltrán, Estefanía Pereira Roa, Nicole Montealegre, Juliana Botero
Diseño web: Toquica
Edición de textos: Tupac Cruz, Inés Elvira Rocha
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