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WRESTLING WITH THE IMAGE – eCATALOG

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011


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Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions, an exhibition of contemporary art from twelve Caribbean countries. Featuring work by artists from the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago, the exhibition is curated by artist and curator Christopher Cozier and art historian Tatiana Flores.

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Nicole Awai

Monday, June 4th, 2007

The Specimens from Local Ephemera

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Red Room Limbo

In 2001, I started physically mapping out a psychological landscape that originated in my then red wall bedroom. The word ‘mapping’ is essential here because subconsciously, I began to chart a course to Local Ephemera.

Local Ephemera is the world of in-between. It is a liminal terrain governed by the sensual and the intuitive where concepts, ideas, inferences and innuendoes (ecological, economical, political and art /historical) take on physical form and are constantly in flux. Things seem to be constantly shifting – displacing, evolving – replacing, oozing – relocating.

The residents of L.E. are a peculiar amalgam of contemporary and historical artifacts from our world that when annexed together seem to create a revolving commentary on our social dynamics.

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