Pablo Delano's Colonialism Exposé

0:00Artis Pablo Delano grew up in Puerto Rico, surrounded by creative legends like his parents, graphic designer Irene and photographer Jack, who helped. Shape the island's cultural scene after moving there in 1946. Now his big installation, the Museum of the Old Colony, hits hard at American colonialism in Puerto Rico since 1898. It's packed with old photos, objects, and symbols calling out the island's ongoing struggles for self-definition. Right now, it's up at the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut. What sparked this? Delano's family legacy, mixed with the 2016 Fiscal Overside Board that cramped Puerto Rico's autonomy, plus his trips to places like Trinidad and Tobago stirring thoughts on post-colonial vibes. Everyday stuff like the old colony soda he drank as a kid-grave flavor from a land with no grapes, high sugar, and a diabetes hotspot became a wake-up to hitting colonial layers complete with soldier-label screaming, old-is-colony.

1:01Folks react strong to the dehumanizing black and white archive shots, showing Puerto Ricans' primitives, racial hierarchies and captions, and enlists. Lines of waiting from World War II drafts to Hurricane Maria gas cues and migration flights. Women's stories hit deep two, four sterilizations in the 50s, training as domestics for US East Coast homes, all under English, only pushes and. Soviet economy, erasers wiping local pride. Delano layers and political surveillance desks, with files from J.U.Y. Uprising in 1950, Sarah Marvela killings in 78 even, recent governor ousts, no fancy gold frames, instead thumbtacks nod to colonizer's gold hunts, plus videos of politicians fumbling, Puerto Rico, toy soldiers, and Tino. Identity myths and bakery logos. This evolving exhibit has tore Puerto Rico, Venice, New York, and more, heading to Sao Paulo next, but Delano dreams of it landing permanently back. Home as a desks colonization spark, running through July 5th at New Britain, that wraps

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