No Seasoning: the artworks from seven Afro descendant
Cuban Outsider Artists
No Seasoning is a historic group exhibition to be held at the
Copperbridge Foundation in North Miami. Integrated by seven
Afro descendant Cuban Outsider Artists, this is the first of its kind
to be shown in this city.
Curated by Elvia Rosa Castro, the exhibit intends to highlight the
severe and overlapping stigmas that the featured artists are
subject to, racial discrimination on one hand, and the prejudice
that comes due to their fragmented existence, outside cultural
norms, on the other. Therefore, they all live in exceedingly
vulnerable conditions and systemic disadvantages.
Included in this Art Exhibition are Pedro Pablo Bacallao, Gloria de
la Caridad, Misleidys Castillo, Isacc Crespo, Daldo Marte, Luis
Manuel Otero Alcántara, and Martha Iris Pérez.  
From collage, drawing, sculpture, and photography, this unique
exhibition brings together an intriguing yet powerful and diverse
picture of the resilient, exceptional, and non-stereotypical way of
dealing with their reality. With No Seasoning, the curator proposes
an unfamiliar scenario, a Ten-Minute Stop, a breath of pure air
and authenticity in a world filled with standardization and marked
by censorship, and whose dominant logic is still based on rigid
social conventions, logocentrism, and all forms of colonialism.
This is an exhibition of “radical nakedness” in the sense of
honesty, transparency, and absence of “socio-cultural rituals and
cult rituals”.
The artworks included in this show come from the NAEMI
Collection (National Art Exhibitions of the Mentally Ill).