Grenada

The artists on display elaborate on the philosophy of a Martinican intellectual, Édouard Glissant, concerning identity and relationships in the Caribbean framework. In this sense, Le discours antillais appears to be a paradigmatic text in describing a population without a single-root identity but rather in perpetual transformation, whereas relations with different influences and ethnic groups appear fundamental for the evolution of the individual and collective consciousness. The Glissantian interpretation shows how relationship and movement would generate knowledge, openness to the other and mutual exchange, while maintaining the right to opacity, meaning one’s own singularity inspired by coexistence and continuous evolution. In line with this thought are the statements of Adriano Pedrosa, who, in his description of the theme Foreigners Everywhere, emphasises the intrinsic sense of foreignness of individuals, regardless of one’s location. Everyone’s strangeness becomes, however, a community at the moment one “practices” knowledge — a concept opposed to “having” knowledge — through the attention paid to the relationships between things or simply by recounting their experience in the context of a reciprocal “correspondence” (Tim Ingold), so that community implies a “giving of self together”.