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Pérez Art Museum Miami acquires Colombian trans activist’s portrait at Nada

Photograph by Camila Falquez shows coffee picker Samantha Siagama

Benjamin Sutton
7 December 2023
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Samantha Siagama advocates for a group of trans women exiled from the Emberá Indigenous community Courtesy the artist and Hannah Traore Gallery

Samantha Siagama advocates for a group of trans women exiled from the Emberá Indigenous community Courtesy the artist and Hannah Traore Gallery

The Pérez Art Museum Miami has acquired a work for its permanent collection from the New Art Dealers Alliance’s (Nada) Miami fair. Jennifer Inacio, the associate curator, and Maritza Lacayo, the assistant curator, picked a photograph by the New York-based artist Camila Falquez, Samantha Siagama, Trans-Indigenous Leader (2023), from Hannah Traore Gallery’s stand. The work’s subject is a coffee picker and activist in Colombia who leads a group of trans women exiled from the Emberá Indigenous community because of their gender identities.

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