Grenada 2026

Title: The Poetics of Correspondence
Commissioner: Susan Mains
Curator: Daniele Radini Tedeschi
Exhibitors: Edward Bowen, Arthur Daniel, Josine Dupont, Alexandra Kordas, Lilo Nido and Chris Mast, Jeverson Ramirez, The Holzwege Group, Russell Watson

The exhibition features layered installations, time-based works, and archival-inspired interventions. It examines Grenada’s position as simultaneously local, regional, and global, sending and receiving signals across the seas. Drawing on the ideas of Édouard Glissant and Tim Ingold, the pavilion views art as a social, dialogical process of “co-becoming” rather than a fixed object. It emphasizes an ethic of attention, where works do not proclaim but “murmur”, favouring process over product and relation over resolution.

The curatorial space is designed to be open-ended and polyphonic, mirroring the “minor keys” that refuse orchestral bombast in favour of quiet tones and lower frequencies. These artworks form constellations and rhythms that reflect shared breath and intimate gestures. By focusing on the collaborative labour of making meaning together, the exhibition offers a series of correspondences between artists, communities, materials, and environments, connecting pasts with possible futures in a fragmented world.