Who More Sci-Fi Than US?

Overview

“Who More Sci-Fi Than Us” features work by a selection of contemporary artists from the Caribbean, from the south (Antilles and Suriname) to the north (Cuba and Jamaica) and from the west (Costa Rica and Panama) to the east (Martinique and Barbados) and all the islands in between.

Who More Sci-Fi Than Us’ tells a discursive story about the Caribbean in which a kind of corresponding culture emerges that all the islands share. In addition, we show how complex and multifaceted the region is. In fact, there may not even be such a thing as “The Caribbean. We do not want to “frame” the artists in a geographical context, but to let the story of the region play the leading role. Among other things, the exhibition tells the story of a shared history, political conditions, the role of religion and the daily life of the average inhabitant. The relevance of the Caribbean to the Netherlands is evident, with the large Antillean, Aruban and Surinamese communities in our country, among others. In the field of art, only sparse attention has been paid to these ‘blood groups’ in the Netherlands so far. KAdE puts them, for the first time in the Netherlands, in the context of the larger Caribbean region.