Firelei Báez, To see beyond it and to access the places that we know lie outside its walls(2015). Image courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris.

Installation view of Firelei Báez at the Berlin Biennale’s Akademie der Künste space: for Marie-Louise Coidavid, exiled, keeper of order, Anacaona (2018). Photo by Timo Ohler. Image courtesy Firelei Báez; Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago.

Installation view of “Firelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire” at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Image courtesy the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Installation view of “Firelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire” at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Image courtesy the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Firelei Báez, To write fire until it is every breath [detail] (2018). Image courtesy the artist and Kavi Gupta Gallery.

Firelei Báez, magnitude and bond [detail] (2018).
Image courtesy the artist and Kavi Gupta Gallery.

Firelei Báez, Elegant gathering in a secluded garden (or the many bridges we crossed) [detail] (2018). Image
courtesy the artist and Kavi Gupta Gallery.

Firelei Báez in her studio.
Photo by SaVonne Anderson, courtesy of the Studio Museum in Harlem.