For their first exhibition of 2024, the TERN Gallery team recently announced “In Relation” a group exhibition featuring Caribbean artists: Gherdai Hassell, Simon Tatum, and Drew Weech. The exhibition opened on February 2 and will be on view through March 16, 2024.
Description: This exhibition brings together three practices from the Anglophone Caribbean to illuminate intimacy within the personal and the political. Each artist grounds their work in personal anecdotes that push their audience to the ever-present politics of our existence within the Global North; however, they allow tenderness and intimacy to remain in place. “In Relation” gives breath to this dichotomy.
Gherdai Hassell is a Bermudian born, China trained, multidisciplinary contemporary artist, creative director, designer and storyteller, based in Manchester, UK. Her work investigates memory and nostalgia to create unexpected narratives surrounding identity. She uses collage to thread and weave histories, and tales of transformation passed down through family lineages. Her work typically centers female bodies, simultaneously existing within realms of past, present, and future. Diasporic pasts become re-informed by Black futures, where the resulting present is experienced as a living “Artifacts,” an act toward afrofuturism… [See more information at https://gherdaihassell.com/info/.]
Simon Tatum (b. 1995, George Town, Grand Cayman) is an interdisciplinary artist. He received his Bachelor of Art degree from the University of Missouri (USA) in 2017, and he received his Master of Fine Arts Degree in Sculpture and Expanded Media from Kent State University (USA) in 2021. His works center procedures that loosely follow Du Bois’s message of double consciousness. He focuses on the actions of undoing, remaking, disassembling, and reassembling print imagery (ex: advertisements/ documentary images) and found objects through his authorship. The imagery and objects he manipulates are relevant to his interests in colonial narratives, tourism, and his identity as a mixed-race Caribbean male who grew up negotiating foreign expectations of cultural aesthetics. His works usually include prints, drawings, sculptures, videos, and installations. [See more information at https://www.simonjtatum.com/.]
Drew Weech is a Bahamian painter who explores various historical and contemporary archetypes to vivify his own conflicted feelings about the notion of “home.” Working primarily in black and white, his practice rejects notions of a single-story by diffusing the space between the past and the present. He juxtaposes imagery that presents a multiplicitous concurrence of personal and collective narratives. In relation to his Afro-Caribbean upbringing, Weech uses his practice as a means of pulling the audience into exploring the depths and nuances of existence outside of the paradisiacal gaze. [See more information at https://www.terngallery.com/artists/drew-weech.]
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For their first exhibition of 2024, the TERN Gallery team recently announced “In Relation” a group exhibition featuring Caribbean artists: Gherdai Hassell, Simon Tatum, and Drew Weech. The exhibition opened on February 2 and will be on view through March 16, 2024. Description: This exhibition brings together three practices from the Anglophone Caribbean to illuminate
