In his new exhibition Whispers (2024, Readytex Art Gallery, Suriname) Rinaldo Klas presents a series of works which compel us to remember the ways of ancestral indigenous knowledge and the way we were. The way in which we built, the way we looked to the sky, to the forests and life cycles for guidance and for sustenance.
Flickering candles, lightning, streaks of white across the ocean, fireflies. How is it that the simplest glimmer of Light holds the power to soothe and stir the depths of our imagination?
Sometime during the height of the “lock down” I had reason to venture out of my house. While driving through Port of Spain, I saw spray painted on some galvanize around a construction site, “COVID NUH REAL”. A conspiracy theory in three words. When the unexpected occurs, especially if it’s tragic, it is human nature […]
“I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.” Aime Cesaire , Letter to Maurice Thorez, Paris: Présence Africaine, 1957 ‘States of Confinement’ is an attempt to document and explore […]