Maison d’Art Lends Carlos Rolón Triptych to All We Have Is Right Now at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art.
Maison d’Art is pleased to announce the loan of waiting for the sun while the mountains and flora pray before the storm (2024), a triptych measuring 40 x 12 inches, to All We Have Is Right Now, a major solo exhibition by Carlos Rolón opening on June 12, 2026, at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art until Decemeber 6th, 2026.
All We Have Is Right Now brings together a significant body of work that reflects Rolón’s ongoing exploration of memory, resilience, and transformation. Through paintings, sculptures, drawings, fabric works, and site-specific installations, the artist examines how histories of migration, colonialism, environmental devastation, and cultural endurance shape both personal and collective identity.
At the heart of the exhibition is Rolón’s use of FEMA tarps, repurposed materials, gold leaf, and imagery drawn from Caribbean flora and fauna. By transforming materials associated with destruction and recovery into objects of beauty and contemplation, Rolón creates works that function as both memory capsules and acts of preservation. The exhibition serves as a meditation on impermanence, survival, and the fragile beauty of the present moment.
The exhibition title, All We Have Is Right Now, reflects the urgency embedded within these materials and histories. The aftermath of Hurricane Maria, the escalating climate crisis, and ongoing ecological and political instability throughout the Caribbean underscore the notion that permanence is an illusion. What remains is the present moment—the act of survival, remembrance, creation, and connection.
At the same time, the title evokes Rolón’s longstanding interest in devotional and contemplative spaces. The phrase encourages viewers to become present and attentive, recognizing both the vulnerability and sacredness of life. Throughout the exhibition, an emotional tension emerges between loss and gratitude, mourning and transcendence.
For Rolón, All We Have Right Now been both a philosophical statement and a form of resistance. The exhibition acknowledges uncertainty while affirming the human capacity to create beauty, preserve memory, and find meaning despite instability. His works remind viewers that while the present moment may be fleeting, it is also where resilience, care, and transformation become possible.
Through environments that bridge public and private space, Rolón invites reflection on symbolism, social barriers, and the ways cultivated landscapes and everyday spaces carry histories of class, migration, and postcolonial experience. Moving fluidly between exuberance and contemplation, his work examines the cultural and emotional landscapes embedded within contemporary life.
