40ºN 74ºW / 13ºN 61ºW

40ºN 74ºW / 13ºN 61ºW investigates through its visual and textual juxtapositions the issue of identity, politics, and place, or in many ways something more intrinsic to the sensitive nature of the post-colonized Anglophone Caribbean. This exhibition makes connections between the historical associations that are guided by ritual, language and cultural identity dispersed within the archipelago.

The sea and the discourse of its violence, displacing tides and triangle trade are dissected; relations are formed between the abstract and the tangible. In self-conscious and suggestive ways, explicit histories expound to reveal futile attempts to preserve and scrutinize the memory of loss and promise.

Spanning the mediums of Photography, Video and Writing, 40ºN 74ºW / 13ºN 61ºW confronts the nomadic journey of the displaced that intermingles and resides in the “homeless” metropolitan. Through its assemblages, genealogical research and mining of archival imagery, the exhibition interrogates and highlights the tension between past and present. The question of kinship, and of finding oneself “in between” becomes a metaphor for the marooned and uprooted.

This inevitable retreat into the past becomes a path to explore the fragments of souls given voice again to elaborate on territory, on the encircling salt coercing through veins, and the ever slowly traveling being back and forth wandering and wondering within waves.

See you folks on 3/19/10 and on the 3/20/10

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