"Wretched of the Earth"

“Its unusual importance is that it (decolonization) constitutes, from the

very first day, the minimum demands of the colonized. To tell the truth,

the proof of success lies in a whole social structure being changed from

the bottom up. The extraordinary importance of this change is that it is

willed, called for, demanded. The need for this change exists in its crude

state, impetuous and compelling, in the consciousness and in the lives

of the men and women who are colonized.”

- Frantz Fanon

Inspired by Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth, this exhibition explores

what the future decolonized landscape of Bahamian art and by extension,

community looks, sounds and feels like, through underrepresented identities,

concepts and conversations.

The artists, many of them seated in the genesis of their individual practices,

claim that the future is now. They utilize their voices as multidisciplinary

creatives to approach themes imposed by colonial source upon the Bahamian

identity as fixed, seen within harmful attitudes and dynamics of masculinity,

youth, queerness, and religion.

Fanon describes decolonisation as a violent process of reclamation, but the

exhibiting artists follow a tender, conceptual route to step toward reforming the

national psyche while broaching the nuances of what Bahamian identity can

and does encompass.