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Peravia.- The Perelló Cultural Center inaugurated the individual exhibition "Transparent Links", by the Dominican artist Carlos Baret (Kbaret), in the Gilberto Hernández Ortega and Belkiss Adrover de Cibrian exhibition halls.
Transparent Links proposes a deep and sensitive reading of the Caribbean as a symbolic, social, and emotional territory.
Through a practice that articulates painting, installation, and textile processes, Baret explores the notions of connection, memory, fragmentation, and resistance, constructing a body of work that dialogues with the tensions between the visible and the invisible, the individual and the collective, the intimate and the historical.
The exhibition has been curated by Amable López Meléndez, with museography by Son Will Feliz Torres and curated by Dr. Julia Castillo.
The exhibition brings together recent works that consolidate sustained research around the languages of weaving, the plot and transparency as metaphors for the Caribbean body, its displacements and its multiple layers of meaning.
In Transparent Links, the gesture of braiding, overlapping, and traversing materials becomes a poetic and political strategy: each work functions as a meeting space where personal stories, collective memories, and cultural resonances converge.
Baret's work thus fits into a contemporary reflection on identity, territory, and the forms of relationship that shape our experience in the Caribbean and beyond its borders.
This exhibition reaffirms the Centro Cultural Perelló's commitment to the promotion of contemporary artistic practices of high conceptual rigor, as well as to the support of artists whose work critically dialogues with their context and with the problems of the present.
CARLOS RAMÓN GARCÍA BARET (Kbaret). Born in San Víctor, Espaillat Province, Dominican Republic, on March 12, 1989. He graduated from the School of Fine Arts of Santiago de los Caballeros and the Faculty of Architecture and Engineering of the Technological University of Santiago (UTESA). He has held 14 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 40 group exhibitions nationally and internationally.
His works have been selected in the 28th, 29th, 30th and 31st editions of the National Biennial of Visual Arts, Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo. In 2015, he obtained the Painting Award of the XXVIII National Biennial of Visual Arts. In 2018, he presented his exhibition Éxodo/Descompostura, at the Mirador Santo Domingo Cultural Center. In 2019, he presented his solo exhibitions Éxodo/Descompostura III, at the Dominican UTESA Convention and Culture Center, Santiago de los Caballeros, and Éxodo/Descompostura IV/Confessions, at the Perelló Cultural Center.
Among her exhibitions, Latino America Fusion Art, Linn Museum/Lynn Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (2019); Miami Art Basel Week, Miami, Fl., USA (2019); Momentos Estelares de la Bienal, Sala Ramón Oviedo del Ministerio de Cultura, Santo Domingo (2021); Materia Palpitante, Centro León, Santiago de los Caballeros (2022); Premio de Arte Juan José Bellapart, Museo Bellapart, Santo Domingo (2022); Miradas Intermitentes, Museo Ramón Cáceres, Moca, Espaillat Province (2024).
In 2024, for his work "Fracture of Memory," he obtained the Special Prize of the Juan José Bellapart Art Award. The works of Carlos Baret are part of important public and private collections in the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Peru, Curaçao, the United States, France, Italy, and Greece.
