Grenada 2024

Title: No man is an island
Commissioner: Susan Mains
Curator: Daniele Radini Tedeschi
Artists: Frederika Adam, Breakfast, Jason deCaires Taylor, ADGART (Antonello Diodato Guardigli), Alma Fakhre, Suelin Low Chew Tung, Gabriele Maquignaz, Lorenzo Marini, Benaiah Matheson, The Perceptive Group, Nello Petrucci

The artists on display elaborate on the philosophy of Édouard Glissant, concerning identity and relationships in the Caribbean context. Central to their interpretation is “Le Discours Antillais,” a paradigmatic text describing a population without a single-root identity but rather in perpetual transformation.
Glissant’s perspective emphasizes the role of relationships and movement in the generation of knowledge, while maintaining every ethnicity the right to opacity, meaning one’s own singularity.

Everyone’s strangeness becomes, however, a community at the moment one “practices” knowledge through the attention paid to the relationships between things in the context of a reciprocal “correspondence” (Tim Ingold), so that community implies a “giving of self together”.