Visualizing / Performing Blackness
in the Afterlives of Slavery:
A Caribbean Archive
This digital archive brings together nine black artists to reflect on forms of visualizing and performing blackness in the afterlives of slavery in the Caribbean. Each artist was invited to create a performance/visual art piece reflecting on the legacies of slavery in their individual countries. We have chosen the Caribbean to account for multiple structures of racial domination that have produced varying iconographies of blackness. In bringing together these nine Black artists, this archive attends to the tactics of visual and embodied insurgency forged in the afterlives of slavery.
Read the Curatorial Statement by Danielle Roper here.
Click on the titles below to view the artworks
Soy la reencarnación de un alma esclavizada…
Awilda Sterling | San Juan, Puerto Rico
Tercera raíz (Third Root)
Carlos Martiel | Havana, Cuba
Oficios de piel curtida
Fabio Melecio Palacios | Palmira, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
Continuum I, Continuum II
Joiri Minaya | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic / New York, US
The Little Match Girl / The Emperor’s New Clothes
La Vaughn Belle | Christiansted, US Virgin Islands
Preparasyon ke mankai fiwa ba la guerra
Las Nietas de Nonó | Carolina, Puerto Rico
In search of lost suns
Leasho Johnson | Kingston, Jamaica
But the real ones, just like you, just like me
Luis Vasquez La Roche | Venezuela/Trinidad
Cuerpo pátina – Cuerpo athanor: Legado de la esclavitud en cuerpos racializados
PERMANENCIAS (Nemecio Berrio Guerrero) | Cartagena, Colombia
