<p style="text-align: center;"><b>February 12 to March 27, 2010</b></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"> Sánchez has been described by critic Lurie Lipman as a “healer, an artist who takes elements of his culture, fragmented by colonial and neocolonial powers, and works them in a restorative manner.”   He has described himself as a Reconstructionists creating a common language, forging an identity and reacquainting himself with the world he calls “home”.   Brooklyn based, award winning artist Juan Sánchez brought, for the first time to Philadelphia, his new body of prints, <i>The Unknown Boricuas + Prisoner: Abu Ghraib</i> created for Taller Puertorriqueño’s 35<sup>th</sup> Anniversary exhibition season.  Sánchez work combines photography, and a mix of print techniques often incorporating text and iconographic images of the <i>Taíno</i>, African, and Spanish catholic traditions in Puerto Rico.</p>
Sánchez’s new works are some of his deepest and most compelling series, documenting the juxtaposition between political prisoners and civil rights leaders, questioning powers of politics and religion, and bringing to light the lesser-known histories of the Puerto Rican liberalist movement. For the first time, Sánchez delivers his multilayered images completely in digital form along with selected works never before exhibited. A catalogue featuring the new series accompanied the exhibition.  The catalogue includes an essay by independent curator Rebeca Noriega-Costas.

This show was also an independent project of Philagraphica 2010: The Graphic Unconscious