What Carmen Maria Machado Wants You to Know About Power

The author and memoirist spoke to Hyperallergic about curating the work of Cuban painter Rocío García, whose characters linger in the space where power and pleasure meet.

What Carmen Maria Machado Wants You to Know About Power
Rocío García (left) and Carmen Maria Machado (right) at a press reception for The Object of Power Is Power at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, with García's painting "La Bella Samurai" (2021) (photo Filip Wolak, courtesy Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art)