Joiri Minari’s work transports pointedly to another side of paradise. Her “tropical flowers” are the fever dreams of the tourist industry. In her collages, she creates collisions of tropes – neon-hued flora, swaying palms, inviting gestures — to subvert assumptions about Caribbean culture and identity. Her juxtapositions obscure as much as they reveal, acting like

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