FLOW: Economies of the Look and Creativity in Contemporary Art From The Caribbean

Overview

The exhibition displays works by 27 artists from various countries including Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname represented in the IDB’s Art Collection as well as art loaned to the exhibition by private collectors, art galleries, and from the artists themselves.

For the curators, the term “FLOW” highlights one of the most important trends in the Caribbean’s contemporary visual culture: the appropriation of elements of popular culture in relation to the economies of “the look,” which foster concepts of embellishment and image-making throughout the region and its diaspora.