The launch of a new book, edited by Marsha Pearce, Black Light Void: Dark Visions of the Caribbean Hansib Publishers, October 2023) will take place on Saturday, January 27, 2024, from 2:00 until 5:00pm, at the Y Art Gallery, located at 26 Taylor Street, Woodbrook, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Description: In Black Light Void: Dark Visions of the Caribbean, Marsha Pearce curates a collection of paintings and short stories to explore sensations of place and identity. The anthology casts tropical place in a different light, going beyond what island sunlight renders visible – beyond what we already know, or think we know – to a space in which the imagination offers illumination. The book makes an argument for seeing the Caribbean in the dark. Expanding the discourse on opacity, it proposes darkness as a critical space for Caribbean aesthetic practices; darkness as a space that resists easy, transparent readings of the Other. Pearce asks: What stories lie beyond those experiences lit up by the sun – the light that is a defining feature of the tropics?
Through a dialogic presentation of work by Trinidadian contemporary visual artist Edward Bowen, and short stories by Trinidadian, award-winning writers Kevin Jared Hosein, Barbara Jenkins, Sharon Millar, Amílcar Sanatan, Portia Subran and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, Pearce shapes a journey into the dark and unpredictable. The collection’s ekphrastic format is a call and response experience in which the reader is expected to participate and make meanings – reflecting on self and responding – in the amalgam of image and word.
For more information, see https://www.hansibpublications.com/BLACK-LIGHT-VOID-Dark-Visions-of-the-Caribbean and https://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Light-Void-Visions-Caribbean/dp/1739321103
Also see https://yartgallerytt.com/exhibitions/?jsf=jet-engine&tax=exhibition-type:12
The launch of a new book, edited by Marsha Pearce, Black Light Void: Dark Visions of the Caribbean Hansib Publishers, October 2023) will take place on Saturday, January 27, 2024, from 2:00 until 5:00pm, at the Y Art Gallery, located at 26 Taylor Street, Woodbrook, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Description: In Black Light Void:
