Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream (en español)
About This Event
Live event at MoMA Exhibitions
About Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream (en español)
Presented at MoMA in New York, *Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream (en español)* situates Lam’s work within the city’s long relationship to modernism and Caribbean diasporic culture. The exhibition traces how his hybrid figures and dense iconography draw from Afro-Cuban spirituality, Surrealism, and the political pressures of the mid-20th century. Shown in an English-dominant museum context, the Spanish framing subtly shifts authority toward Lam’s own linguistic world. One clear takeaway is how his imagery resists easy classification, even now.
About the Artist
Wifredo Lam
Wifredo Lam was a Cuban artist whose work draws on Afro-Cuban religious and cultural traditions while engaging the modernist circles he moved through in Europe and the Americas. In conversation with figures such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, he developed a vocabulary of hybrid bodies and mask-like faces that resists easy categorization.