Infinite Futures
January 26th – March 30th
Grenada National Museum, St. George’s, Grenada
Infinite Futures is an exhibition organised by the Grenada Arts Council and hosted by the Grenada National Museum in commemoration of Grenada’s Golden Jubilee. Artists from and living in Grenada responded to an open call to the theme of contemplating our limitless potential as a nation through diversity and collaboration. We join with West Indian intellectuals, including our own Alister Hughes, in recognising that one of our greatest assets as a nation and as a region, is our strength and resilience formed from many inputs and encounters with the other.
“Let’s shake off inertia, let’s find a new birth, Let’s lift our heads high, recognize our own worth, Our future awaits with unlimited span Awake and move forward, Caribbean Man. !!!”
– Alister Hughes, 1990.
René Menil (Martinique) in expressing the region’s unqiue position and identity in the world in declaring KI MOUN NOU YE (Who we are) says, “neither African nor Chinese, nor Indian, nor even French, but ultimately West Indian. Our culture is West Indian since, in the course of history, it has brought together and combined in an original syncretism all these elements derived from the four corners of the earth, without being any one of those elements in particular.”
We are proud of the artists who submitted artwork for this exhibition and we look forward to a continued collaboration with the Grenada National Museum in putting imagination and art into this public space as a catalyst for personal, community, and national transformation.
Finally, Édouard Glissant (Martinique), who was an inspiration for this exhibition had developed what he called the poetics of relation which has entered into the global philosophical discourse as a prescription for true human advancement. Glissant saw imagination as the force that can change mentalities; relation as the process of this change; and poetics as a transformative mode of history. Through relation, imagination, and poetics, we can continue to imagine new futures as a people.
“We travel on the surface, in the expanse, weaving our imaginary structures and not filling up the voids of a science, but rather, as we go along, removing boxes that are too full so that in the end we can imagine infinite volumes.”
Artwork is available for sale from this exhibit where indicated and goes towards supporting the livelihoods of local creatives as well as the efforts of the Grenada Arts Council in continuing to provide opportunities for artists to exhibit their work and to the general public of Grenada as an educative and transformative endeavour. More information can be found at http://www.grenadaartscouncil.com or can be contacted at info@grenadaartscouncil.com. You can also follow us for updates on Instagram and Facebook @grenadaartscouncil. Be sure to tag any artwork you post on social media with #grenadaartscouncil.
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