A Small Remainder of Teeth: Ecohorror and the Anti-Paradise

“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.