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Sexually Expressed, Violently Possessed

by ap | Jan 8, 2022 | Art-icles, Carol-Anne McFarlane, PREE 8 | 0 |

Carol-Anne McFarlane
Nice nipples.” This comment was directed towards me after I exited my car, less than 15 feet from my studio. I parked in the closest spot to the door, in a futile hope to not be harassed.

Island Influences

by ap | Feb 18, 2021 | Aquille Dunkley, Art-icles, Highlights 6, PREE 6 | 1 |

ACQUILLE DUNKLEY
I must start off with a disclaimer. These images are not photographs. They were created digitally on a computer.

Proposal for a New Necropolis

by ap | Aug 4, 2020 | Art-icles, PREE Views 2 | 8 |

We had an unprecedented opportunity to grapple with the reality that Caribbean countries needn’t have a white majority to uphold neocolonial, supremacist systems.[6] Yet, some Trinbagonians retreated into denial and defensiveness.

Shells and shores: Wendy Nanan and Andre bagoo

by ap | Jun 20, 2020 | Andil Gosine, Andrae Green, Andre Bagoo, Art-icles, Articles 5, Nadia Huggins, PREE 5 Brawta, Wendy Nanan | 0 |

WIth COVID 19 forcing the temporary closure of the museum, curator Andil Gosine called upon three poets to virtually open Nanan’s exhibtiion–the first and largest for a Caribbean woman at the AMA–on June 11, 2020. Among them was Andre Bagoo, whose engagement with the artist includes a suite of poems that invoke and weigh the site of Nanan’s shell-collecting, along Trinidad’s vulnerable Atlantic coast.

circa no future: Nadia Huggins

by ap | Jun 20, 2020 | Art-icles, Articles 5, Nadia Huggins, PREE 5 Brawta | 0 |

Mesmerizing video of a black body in seeming freefall

Bodies of water: recent work by ANDRAE GREEN

by ap | Jun 20, 2020 | Andrae Green, Art-icles, Articles 5, PREE 5 Brawta | 0 |

I used the sea as a backdrop in my exploration of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in my M-E-T-A series.

Beach as Plot?

by ap | Apr 19, 2020 | Annalee Davis, Art-icles, Articles 5, Highlights, PREE 5 | 0 |

In this article artist Annalee Davis draws a thread between the one-dimensional notion of tourism as the panacea for small island economies (with a particular focus on Barbados), and the potential role of contemporary visual art and artists in offering other lenses through which we can see ourselves and consider our contexts. COVID-19 will infect this text. How can it not?