Opens
Sep 19, 2024
NAGB
T2 Gallery
“yet spring / is not to be endured without spoyl / these roots have a small / remainder of teeth”
A Small Remainder of Teeth: Ecohorror and the Anti-Paradise explores the rising anxieties of Bahamians living amidst climate change and its devastating impacts. The exhibition employs ecohorror as a conceptual lens—a genre that frames ecological crises and environmental destruction in ways to evoke feelings of dread and horror.
In ecohorror, natural landscapes are often portrayed as angry or threatening, reflecting real-world environmental fears. Through this framework, the exhibition brings together works by artists who engage with these unsettling themes, highlighting the tension between the human and non-human, and examining the deep-seated vulnerabilities shaped by both colonial histories of ecological violence and current climate realities.
The exhibition title comes from a line in Sonia Farmer’s poetry collection A True and Exact History (2018), where a speaker laments over a land disrupted by colonization. In contrast to pre-independence portrayals of The Bahamas as an idyllic paradise, this exhibition emphasizes a more turbulent view of nature, where landscapes embody emotions like anger and fear. It presents a variety of thematic interpretations, including the decaying landscape and the turbulent forces that challenge notions of control and independence.
A Small Remainder of Teeth is curated by Letitia Pratt, Associate Curator.
John Beadle
Stan Burnside
John Cox
Michael Edwards
Sonia Farmer
Dwight Ferguson
Blake Fox-Belcher
Kendal Hanna
Jordanna Kelly
Toby Lunn
Holly Parotti
Matthew Rahming
Heino Schmid
Allan Wallace
Tessa Whitehead