<p style="text-align: center;"><b> May 9 – July 19, 2008</b></p>
<b> Miguel Luciano’s </b>work addresses playful and painful exchanges between Puerto Rico and the United States, questioning a colonial relationship that still exists and what he terms “problematizing” the space between the two cultures. His work offers humor as an avenue of escape providing comical relief, albeit tongue and chick, to these inherent conflicts.  He examines how colonial subordination is extended through globalization as communities have shifted gears from a production based society to one grounded in consumption. His work often organizes popular, historic, religious, and consumer iconography into fluctuating new hierarchies to describe the complexity of contemporary belief systems.  His pieces are both nostalgic and in tune with what is happening in Puerto Rican and in Brooklyn, New York, where he lives. His work focuses on children and the effects of consumption and materialism on their psyches.  In his residency he will challenge youth at Taller to become more critical and discerning regarding their consumption patterns.