Curating Transnational Feminist Solidarities in Born in Flames: Feminist Futures

This essay offers a transnational feminist analysis of the exhibit Born in Flames: Feminist Futures, organized in spring 2021 by curator JasmineWahi for the Bronx Museum of the Arts. It examines how Born in Flames deploys a caring curatorial practice that centers the creative projects of Black and Brown artists from different regions of the Global South. The author contends that Wahi’s caring curation of the exhibit helps develop a collective conversation around the contemporary effects of racial capitalism, heteropatriarchy, and globalization. Through an interconnected reading of works by four of the artists—Firelei Báez, Tourmaline, Clarissa Tossin, andWangechi Mutu— this essay situates Born in Flames within a broader genealogy of transnational feminist activisms, solidarities, and cultural production. In this way, the author argues that the exhibit illuminates how transnational feminist art rethinks the spaces and temporalities of feminist struggles while imagining radical forms of living the present and future otherwise.