Presenting “Pedro Figari”-Role-Switching, Code-Shifting, and the Aesthetics of Power

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.