Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream

At MoMA Exhibitions, *Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream* frames the artist’s hybrid visual language—Afro-Cuban spirituality, European modernism, and Surrealist strategies—through works that move between figure, mask, and landscape. The exhibition situates Lam in New York’s art ecology while underscoring his transatlantic path between Havana, Paris, and the Americas. In a city that often files modernism into separate national stories, Lam’s practice reads as a corrective. It makes clear how diaspora and ritual can function as structure, not ornament.