This evening, June 18, 2025, join conceptual artist Francisco Maso and Wende Museum Deputy Director Cara Megan Lewis for a timely conversation on Aesthetic Register of Covert Forces, Maso’s series on the aesthetics of surveillance.
Aesthetic Register of Covert Forces explores the secret visual codes woven into Cuban state-issued clothing, exposing how agents of surveillance and control can hide in plain sight. Drawing on the legacy of Latin American abstraction, the series reclaims color as both a political critique and a call to see what lies beneath the ordinary.
Maso (Havana, 1988) is a Cuban-born, AfroLatinx conceptual artist living and working in Miami. His work challenges what society accepts as natural, necessary, and normal. Through his lived experience in Cuba, Japan, and the United States, Maso examines the relationships between blackness, civil rights, and state power.
Wed, Jun 18 | 6 p.m.
