Stories From the Collection & Into the Void: “Transformation” (1987) by Jolyon Smith Letitia Pratt · 12 March 2025 When I
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’ Mabrika
Antonius Roberts’ Mabrika invites visitors into a suspended sea of silk cotton canoes, blending Lucayan ingenuity with Afro-Indigenous aesthetics to explore histories erased by colonization. This immersive installation envisions a pluralistic Caribbean futurism, where ecological and cultural pasts intersect with pressing questions about climate change, survival, and decolonization, offering a timeless meditation on progress and sovereignty.
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?