Edrin Symonette explores how identity, the body, memory, and cultural history intersect within his practice.
Skin Deep: Artist Talk with Edrin Symonette
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National Exhibition 11 Catalogue
21 contemporary Bahamian artists envision futures beyond colonial inheritance, examining visibility, absence, and transformation.
There’s a Man on the Floor: Edrin Symonette’s Man Skin Rug
By Letitia Pratt Associate Curator Many artworks compete for your attention in NELEVEN: INTO THE VOID, but none more so [...]
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“Water: The giver and the taker of life”: Edrin Symonette’s “Salt of the Earth”
By Dr Ian Bethell-Bennett, The University of The Bahamas. Salt: pressed into flesh, brines and cures, drying left on lines, as flies land and enjoy a feast of decaying flesh; a colonial resource extracted from the spaces of the once far-flung regions of empire. Salt is a way of life; a natural resource abundantly available in the islands; the pain of enslaved Africans who laboured tirelessly in its corrosive briny suspension as they raked salt under hot sun. Their skin ulcered, backs bent and minds steeled against the dehumanisation of exploitation and enslavement.
Blank Canvas with Leasho Johnson and Edrin Symonette
On Wednesday evening’s “Blank Canvas,” as part of the NAGB’s continuing series of “Double Dutch,” your host Amanda Coulson (NAGB Director, middle) is visited in the studio by Bahamian artist Edrin Symonette (right) and Jamaican artist Leasho Johnson (left), who speak to their individual artistic practices and their collaborative exhibition, opening on Friday night at 7 p.m. “Of Skin and Sand.”
Creating Thinking Spaces: Opportunity to Think, Build, and Grow
The University of The Bahamas and the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas have created an open space for group discussion that allows students to benefit from the offering of both spaces. This relationship allows culture to truly be highlighted. As much as we talk about culture, we often disconnect our experiences from talk. These lectures are designed to promote thought and unshackle minds blinkered by a dysfunctional system designed to create workers without a sense of self, or an identity that can transcend the 9 to 5 and the 21 by seven of the mundane.
Unearthing: Raising the Voices, Quieting the Noise
Edrin Symonette and Keisha Oliver unearth voices in their site-specific projects for NE8.