The light installation Mulatta by Yvette Mattern together with the sound track composed specially for it by the jazz musician and composer Don Byron, is reminiscent of bygone days in the Puerto Rican dance bars of New York and elsewhere. At the same time, the artist – who was born in Puerto Rico in 1963 as the descendant of black and white grandparents – breaks the warm bar atmosphere with the word “mulatta”, a term that comes from the context of 1920s racism. Mattern lives in New York.