Re-Shaping the Sugar, curated by Yohanna M. Roa, brings together a group of artists whose practices engage the historical and contemporary legacies of sugar as a material, economic system, and colonial infrastructure.
As noted in a review published by Whitehot Magazine, the exhibition situates itself within overlapping temporalities—linking the histories of the transatlantic sugar trade, slavery, and extraction to present-day conditions of displacement, labor, and global capitalism.
Rather than presenting sugar as an object, the project approaches it as a spectral presence—an absent material that nonetheless structures the works and narratives within the exhibition. Through this framework, the show foregrounds the persistence of colonial violence while opening space for resistance, resilience, and visibility across diasporic and transnational contexts.
Developed as part of WhiteBox’s EXODUS series, the project emphasizes interconnected histories and lived experiences, allowing multiple voices and positions to emerge in relation to one another.