By Allison Thompson and Alissandra Cummins The ancient watercourses of my island Echo of river, trickle, worn stone, The sunken voice of glitter inching its pattern to the sea, Memory of foam, fossil, erased beaches high above the eaten boulders of st philip My mother is a pool Kamau Brathwaite’s Mother Poem, is dedicated, he … Lire la suite
Exhibition September 8 – October 14 2023 Opening: September 7th 2023, 19:00–21:00 Hybrid opening onsite and online. Closing date: October 14th 2023 Letícia Barreto, Cinzia Greco, Maica Gugolati, Jaime Lee Loy, Gabrielle Le Roux Feel(In) the Gaps starts from an ongoing discussion among the five of us: artists, activists, researchers, and curators who shared the experience of having different invisible and … Lire la suite
Cliquer sur chaque image de l’article pour la voir en grand format The Studio Lumina, a brand-new arts centre, has just opened to artists and the public, helping to remedy the undeniable lack of venues dedicated to art. Three hundred square metres with raw concrete walls, black picture rails and designer furniture. The project is … Lire la suite
We have an example of it in the exhibition Claude Cauquil, Martinique 1920-2020 at the Martinique Territorial Archives. So why not discuss the question whether the genre was strongly present in the Caribbean before the modern era? In what ways did 19th century Caribbean history painting differ from the norms of academic history painting in … Lire la suite
DEPARTURES AND ARRIVALS IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE VISUAL ARTS WEBINAR OCTOBER 13 th Three critical and historical perspectives on how modernism arose and developed in the Caribbean Basin in the context of dictatorship, civil war, social unrest, and decolonization converge in the presentations of this webinar, witnessing profound changes in cultural realities, social, political, … Lire la suite
To further contribute to the international dissemination of Caribbean art, Aica Caraïbe du Sud has created a series of short trilingual videos visible on its website, on YouTube and broadcast on a regional television channel. After a long interruption due to the health context, a new issue on the visual artist Arthur Francietta has just … Lire la suite
In late 2002, Streuli photographed and filmed on the island of Martinique using a digital, an analog and a video camera. Twenty years later, this stay results in three different projects presented under the title Martinique 2002. The 264-page book Martinique 2002, with over a hundred images from one of Streuli’s first digital series, and an extensive … Lire la suite
Part 2; Sounding Waters. Zot Konn-Yeman/ or They Know-The Wise. “They Know”, I felt the reverberation of voices pouring from my ears to my body. I was at Groggia Little Theater. “They Know”, I heard repeating. Again, whistling. The sound of shaken seeds. Images of tropical plants trapped in a greenhouse were printed on traditional … Lire la suite
A k u z u r u On Art and Healing: Permutations and Transmutations of Self-Healing in my Praxis I have embarked on this wondrous journey in art envisioning toward realizing the vibrationally decisive advancement of the human consciousness. The awareness of the Supra-Mind lies on the foundation of self-healing, which intrinsically lies on the … Lire la suite