The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art

Hundreds of independent art spaces were forced to close due to the Corona-crisis. We want to celebrate some artistic events that are right now sitting behind closed doors. This time: a thematic group exhibition in the Pérez Art Museum, Miami, centered on the question, “what might a Caribbean future look like?”.

Lavar Munroe, Rehearsal for Reconstruction, 2019. Acrylic, spray-paint, fabric, and human hair on unprimed canvas. 76 x 63 inches. Courtesy the artist.

View of The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, 2019–20. Photo: Oriol Tarridas. Courtesy of the PAMM

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by C&AL

Tue 19 May, 2020

The thematic group exhibition The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art, in the PAMM, is centered on the question, “what might a Caribbean future look like?” The show seeks to think beyond narratives of catastrophe that continue to frame the region in terms of then and now. The Other Side of Now features 14 artists who engage future time through personal experiences, collective memories, and historical legacies.

Artists: Deborah Anzinger, Charles Campbell, Andrea Chung, Hulda Guzman., Deborah Jack, Louisa Marajo, Manuel Mathieu, Alicia Milne, Lavar Munroe, Angel Otero, Sheena Rose, Jamilah Sabur, Nyugen Smith, Cristina Tufiño

Curators: María Elena Ortiz and Dr. Marsha Pearce

The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art
Pérez Art Museum, Miami
1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FL 33132
https://www.pamm.org/

View of The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, 2019–20. Photo: Oriol Tarridas. Courtesy of the PAMM.

View of The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, 2019–20. Photo: Oriol Tarridas. Courtesy of the PAMM.

Sheena Rose, Cognitive , 2019. Acrylic on drywall. 120 x 238 inches. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Worldredeye.com

Jamilah Sabur, This Is Where I Was Born, 2018. Oil and graphite on linen. 40 x 40 inches. Collection of Rick Crooks. Courtesy the artist and Nina Johnson, Miami.

Nyugen Smith, Bundlehouse:...because after the fracture, came something like paradise..., 2019. Mixed media and found object assemblage. 60 x 90 x 10 inches. Courtesy of the artist.