This machine can be thought of as capitalism, colonialism, racism, and all the other “isms” that disrupt true love and connection for humanity.
From the Collection & Into the Void: “Transformation” (1987) by Jolyon Smith
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Welcome to the Past, Present, and Future: A Caribbean Futurist Read of Antonius Roberts’s Mabrika
Roberts engages with histories of the past, particularly those that have been erased or ignored through colonisation.
From the Collection: Jolyon Smith’s “Transformation” (1987) and imagining Black Bahamian futures
By Natalie Willis. Jolyon Smith’s Transformation (1987) is one of the first works collected for the National Collection at the NAGB, shown in the Inaugural National Exhibition or the INE. To have a work that appears so afrofuturist in its aesthetic speaks volumes for the genre and also for the nascent years of the NAGB in thinking what a National Collection could and should look like. What does a Black future look like, and a Bahamian one at that?