Archipelago is an exhibition that lives up to its title; its artists still navigate the restless Caribbean waters much like their maritime ancestors. They create in the face of ecological threats from overtourism and overdevelopment, as both ecosystems and memories erode into the sea.
Picasso-Kirchner exhibition provides yet another key for understanding the multiple journeys, detours and caesuras in the evolution of several centuries of European art. Within this grand evolutionary trajectory, it becomes more fulfilling to appreciate why Picasso eventually became Picasso and Kirchner would become the artist he became.
The National Gallery of Cayman Islands is taking the 4th edition of the Cayman Islands Biennial to new horizons by inviting U.S.- based curators for their themed exhibition, Archipelago. This multi-sited exhibition represents the best submissions from Caymanian artists across all three islands and the Diaspora to showcase the breadth of diversity and creativity in this Caribbean country.
Always imbued with themes about travel and what is abstract about those memories this collection features figurative works executed with mixed media, from ink from ball point pens, water colours and pastel, utilised the depth and forms of the works to articulate vignettes about narrativised memories as artistic bounty.
Najaax Harun does not offer easy reflections. She offers portals. Her work is an invitation to stare into the mirror until it dissolves, until the frozen self, heart finally open, thaws and steps through.