Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Chiquito Banano (as part of USA Paradisiaca), performance presented in 2001 at Estrella Latina Restaurant, Queens New York / Presented with Crossing the Line, an exhibition curated by Valerie Smith for Queens Museum

Banana Company Artwashes Its Bloody Legacy at Art Basel Miami Beach Chiquita has no place in the arts, let alone at an art fair with deep ties to Latin America / Juanita Solano Roa and Blanca Serrano Ortiz de Solórzano

“Rachelle Mozman Solano’s fantastical video in which the founder of the United Fruit Company, Minor Cooper Keith, is infected with Panama disease, as is the banana monoculture worldwide? Have the fair organizers seen the 2008 May Day series by Andrea Chung, who currently has a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, in which she erases farmers from vintage plantation photographs to give them a day off? Is anyone familiar with Nicolás Dumit Estévez’s brilliant, queer Latinx impersonation of “Chiquito Banano“? Shouldn’t the map of Miami be redesigned as a banana, as in Dominican York artist Yunior Chiqui Mendonza’s poignant “Bananhattan,” recasting New York City in the fruit’s image?” Hyperallercic, December 6, 2024

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