The writer, curator, and visual artist Coco Fusco was born in New York City in 1960, a year after her mother fled Havana as rebel forces closed in during the Cuban Revolution. Raised in the U.S., she remained tied to her heritage: in the early 80s, while in graduate school at Stanford, she fell in with a circle of Cuban artists; throughout the mid-90s, she spent stretches in Havana as part of the local arts scene. Working across mediums, and especially through the spoken word, Fusco explores themes of colonialism, power, and race. At the center of the show is her 2012 video Y entonces el mar te habla, in which a woman narrates her attempt to take her mother’s ashes from the U.S. to Cuba. —Elena Clavarino