Relations between humans and history, architecture and material culture constitute some of the central interests in the work of Engel Leonardo (Baní,Dominican Republic, 1977). His production tends to be based on studies about Caribbean culture, modern tropical architecture, histories repressed by modernity, and the transmission of indigenous and African knowledge through objects commonly seen as artisanal, folkloric or ethnographic. Born and based in the Dominican Republic, the artist takes particular interest in the architectural and artisanal narratives that strain the notions of antillanía, tropicality, modernism, indigenous culture and Afro-Atlantic culture.