Friday July 11, 2025 | 1:30 PM
Location: Residency Unlimited
360 Court Street (main green church doors), Brooklyn NY 11231 (map)
In addition to taking place in-person at RU, this program will be streamed online via Zoom at this link.
As part of our Meet Over Lunch series, please join us for a talk by Havana based, RU curator-in-residence Chrislie Pérez Pérez. This presentation traces the birth of Piso 34 as an initiative that seeks to respond to an urgent question: How do we build spaces for those who remain inequitably represented in the mainstream art world, still marked by rigid binaries and exclusionary structures?
In a landscape still dominated by hegemonic narratives and shaped by censorship and economic precarity, Piso 34 emerges as a platform for disruption, dedicated to amplifying the voices of women and queer artists whose practices challenge dominant narratives through decolonial frameworks, as well as those who explore gender as a critical and destabilizing lens through which to examine power, identity, memory, and resistance.
It is based on transdisciplinary and collaborative methodologies that inhabit liminal spaces and foster dialogue between visual art and other media, while proposing curatorial practice as a form of situated resistance – one that seeks to change the dominant storytelling and help shape new cultural vocabularies.
About
Chrislie Pérez Pérez is a Cuban art historian, researcher, independent curator, and art critic based in Havana. She holds a Master’s degree from the University of Havana and is a PhD candidate at ISA (University of the Arts, Cuba). She is the founder of Piso 34, a platform supporting women creators in Cuba. She serves on the Editorial Board of Artecubano magazine and co-compiled the book “A quien pueda interesar”. She has curated exhibitions such as Piso34 (2024), Amora (Galería Habana, 2019), and Paradigm (Galería Habana, 2021). Her writing has been featured in national and international art publications, and she has received distinctions including a mention in the Guy Pérez Cisneros Criticism Competition (2013) and the National Curatorship Award (2024).
Chrislie Pérez Pérez’s residency is made possible with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Cuban Artists Fund.
