Global (Borderless) Caribbean VI

Borderless Caribbean — Unmapped Trajectories: Annotating Art Histories is presented on the 20th Anniversary of the Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance, as part of its expanded Global Caribbean series now in its sixth edition. This program is the most significant art exhibition devoted to Caribbean contemporary art during the Art Basel Miami week.

The exhibition explores cross-currents of origins / histories / current visions, with the understanding that Caribbean expression and art is linked to historiographic and anthropological perspectives integrated wtih Western modernism focused first on predominantly European urban centers, and finally key American cities.

The narrative of the show aims to include historical references of unmapped trajectories of the Caribbean and its relations. The political, cultural, social, religious and economic related experiences with other parts of the world are presented as a descriptive part of the show, and connected with the current metaphors of a select group of artists.

The exhibition combines the work of renowned contemporary artists that have emerged from an expanded Caribbean and which have made their artistic discourse a global reflection of local issues through interactions and exchanges transformed in their art process. Approached not by a geographical mapping, but rather by historical, psychological, cultural and social issues from people from all around the globe. 

The show is curated by museologist and cultural practitioner Jorge Luis Gutierrez, seasoned curator and researcher on Caribbean and Latin American contemporary art, and former director of the MDC Freedom Tower Museum and the Museum of Visual arts in Venezuela among other projects, with the support of the Green Family Foundation, the City of Miami, the Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs, Triennial Miami of Contemporary Art, FIU and University of Miami.