TAMARA CEDRÉ

To Rise Above Ruins

RIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM
On View: March 15, 2025 – August 31, 2025

To Rise Above Ruins takes inspiration from Caribbean poet Derek Walcott, who ruminates on how cultures persist under the threat of erasure. Photographer Tamara Cedré builds her work upon this notion of the remaking and reassembling of cultures from fragmental memory by bringing together archival and new images to conjure what Walcott calls a “visual echo of history.” Looking closely to imagery made around the turn of the American Century, this exhibition engages past and present, to create a photographic commons for Cedré and the communities she calls home in Puerto Rico and Southern California to understand how land has been used and shaped in the service of power.