Presenting "Pedro Figari" : Role-Switching, Code-Shifting, and the Aesthetics of Power

Name: Presenting "Pedro Figari" : Role-Switching, Code-Shifting, and the Aesthetics of Power
Start: 2025-03-06T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-03-06T19:30:00-05:00
Location: 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FL, United States, Florida 32608

Schedule

Thu Mar 06 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FL, United States, Florida 32608 | Gainesville, FL

With Lyneise Williams, Associate Professor, Emerita, Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Working in Montevideo, Uruguay and in Paris, France, Pedro Figari (1861 – 1938) painted lively folk scenes of dancing and socializing that shape our perception of Blackness in Uruguay. They are also revealing of the maker himself and of how he — as a first-generation Uruguayan of Italian descent — navigated the highly stratified social dynamics of Montevideo.
Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Rothman Endowment). Co-Sponsored by the UF Center for Latin American Studies.