THE OTHER SIDE OF NOW, A LOOK INTO CARIBBEAN FUTURE – PÉREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI
In contemporary art, the Caribbean is often seen through the lens of its traumatic, colonial past and socioeconomic problems that linger in the present. The Other Side of Now seeks to think beyond narratives of catastrophe—both geographical and political—that continue to frame the region, asking instead: What might a Caribbean future look like? The exhibition invites artists from the English, French, Dutch, and Spanish-speaking Caribbean to capture the future of the region as a tangible time and space.
In this exhibition, the Caribbean is conceptualized as both a complex spatial configuration and a temporal formation. Through video, sculpture, paintings, and installation works, The Other Side of Now illuminates ideas of survival, community, self-acceptance, environmental rights, and creative resourcefulness, painting a picture of the Caribbean region that edges toward a present-future.
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Jamilah Sabur. Survivre quelque chose et y revenir, 2019. Neon, transformer, prints on cotton rag, enamel, and Honduran mahogany. 86 x 76 x 3 inches. Courtesy the artist and Nina Johnson, Miami
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The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, 2019–20. Photo: Oriol Tarridas
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Jamilah Sabur. This Is Where I Was Born, 2018. Oil and graphite on linen. 40 x 40 inches. Collection of Rick Crooks.
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The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, 2019–20. Photo: Oriol Tarridas
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Andrea Chung. Filthy Water Cannot Be Washed, 2017. Cyanotypes, gouache and watercolor pencils. 240 x 88 inches. Courtesy the artist
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Lavar Munroe. Rehearsal for Reconstruction, 2019. Acrylic, spray-paint, fabric, and human hair on unprimed canvas. 76 x 63 inches. Image courtesy the artist
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The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, 2019–20. Photo: Oriol Tarridas
“This exhibition is forward-thinking and progressive in its stance regarding the Caribbean and its diaspora,” said PAMM Associate Curator María Elena Ortiz. “PAMM is an institution that is dedicated to spotlighting underrecognized populations, and this outlook bolsters PAMM’s role in platforming art from the Caribbean in all its diversity and complexity.”
In conjunction with The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art, PAMM will release an illustrated bilingual publication that includes writings by Caribbean writers YOSS and Rita Indiana, and commissioned essays by Aja Monet, Jason Fitzroy Jeffers, Dr. Keith Nurse, Dr. Marsha Pearce, David Scott, and María Elena Ortiz.
Participating artists:
Deborah Anzinger; Charles Campbell; Andrea Chung; Hulda Guzman; Deborah Jack; Louisa Marajo; Manuel Mathieu; Alicia Milne; Lavar Munroe; Angel Otero; Sheena Rose; Jamilah Sabur; Nyugen Smith; Cristina Tufiño
The Other Side of Now: Sheena Rose
*cover artwork: Deborah Jack. water between us remembers, so we wear our history on our skin, long for a sea-bath and hope the salt will cure what ails us, 2016. Digital color video, 15 min. 42 sec. Courtesy the artist
