How did the collaboration between yourself and Hiram begin?

In 2014, Hiram invited me to collaborate with him in an exhibition called Anchor at the Hunter East Harlem Gallery on 119th Street. A small group of artists were invited to connect with his photographic archive, and we each selected five photographs to exhibit and respond to with a new work. I chose photographs of kids flying kites on the rooftops of East Harlem from the early 1960s, and I also chose photographs of the Young Lords from the late 1960s. I was thinking about these relationships between joy, play and resistance from the beginning.

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See more of Miguel Luciano’s work in Food in New York: Bigger than the Plate at the Museum of the City of New York (through Fall 2023) and No Existe un Mundo Poshuracan: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria at The Whitney Museum of American Art, opening November 23rd.

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