Exhibitions
19 February 2022 - 23 April 2022
Foreign Agent / Lausanne, Switzerland
"Cotton Jinn" by Lisandro Suriel, 90 X 135 CM, courtesy of the artist
Foreign Agent presents The Jumbee Sea, Lisandro Suriel’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The Jumbee Sea is rooted in magical realism, weaving together mythology and hauntology, building a mysterious and sensuous world featuring otherworldly figures of Black cosmology within a dreamlike tropical habitat. The Jumbee Sea draws from the artist’s on-going project Ghost Island, which explores the complex, dynamic and undocumented web of influences of Black Atlantic identity, while contesting the colonial histories of the West Indies, and specifically in Saint Martin.
The Jumbee Sea is less about what is known and taught in the history books and more about the “not knowing” and the “unknown” of history and identity; the spiritual, the ghostly, the haunting – what survives after loss. In this exhibition, the artist reconfigures local collective memory by resurrecting lost Black Atlantic voices.
Lisandro Suriel is a contemporary visual artist born in 1990 in Saint Martin.
OPENING TIMES Tuesday to Friday: 2 – 6pm Saturday: 11am – 5pm & by appointment
FOREIGN AGENT 64 avenue d’Ouchy 1006 Lausanne, Switzerland
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