The writer, curator, and visual artist Coco Fusco was born in New York City in 1960. Her mother had fled Havana a year earlier, as rebel forces closed in during the Cuban Revolution. But Fusco never lost touch with her heritage. In 1982, while in graduate school at Stanford, she fell in with a group of Cuban artists; and until the mid–1990s, she spent time in Havana taking part in the local arts scene. Through various media—and especially the spoken word—Fusco explores themes of colonialism, power, and race. The centerpiece of this exhibition is her 2012 video work Y entonces el mar te habla, in which a woman narrates her attempts to bring her dead mother’s ashes from the U.S. to Cuba. —Elena Clavarino