Designed layout for Gallery 102 Exhibition Catalog entitled WATER / ماء :TRESPASSING LIQUID HIGHWAYS
With hurricane Maria sweeping up the Caribbean and the current migration crisis in the Mediterranean resulting in increased deaths, slavery, and xenophobia, WATER /ماء : Trespassing Liquid Highways underscores the geographical pull of the Caribbean and the Mediterranean seas as spaces of contested movements, as liquid highways, and as sites of violence.
The exhibition employs Édouard Glissant’s Archipelag thought as an analytical framework to investigate the relationally of the Mediterranean and the Caribbean seas. Through painting, collage, sculpture, video, poetry and performance, the artists examine movements within/inside/under/around the body of/and water from multi-layered perspectives—questioning colonialist and orientalist notions of paradise and uncovering forgotten transnational entanglements.
Learn more about the exhibition here