Our group show Entanglements  at 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair New York brings together Caribbean and Amazonian artists whose works examine entanglement as a historical and ongoing force shaping the region. Rather than linear narratives, the presentation unfolds as a contemporary Babel: a dense field of forms, symbols, and languages where identities are fragmented and recomposed. Across diverse materialities — embroidery, wood, metal, sculpture, and photography — the works assemble signs, spiritual codes, vegetal and animal motifs, and domestic objects into hybrid structures that resist singular interpretation. Foregrounding cacophony over coherence, the exhibition approaches mindful societies as composite—formed through layering, polyphony and distortion.

The booth brings together a majority of artists of Francophone Caribbean descent—spanning Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Haiti—including Chantalea Commin, Eymric Moderne, Thierry Alet, Tania L. Balan-Gaubert, Nyugen Smith, and Edouard Duval-Carrié—alongside artists working across Amazonian postcolonial contexts in French Guiana, Suriname, and Venezuela: respectively, NouN, Johan Amiemba, and Ramses Serrano.

— Words by Vanessa Selk, Curator and Artistic Director of the TOUT-MONDE Art FOUNDATION and TMArthouse

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