Thursday 16 January, 2020, from 6.30 pm
27 Pembroke Street, Port of Spain
On Thursday 16 January, 2020, for one night only, artist Maya Ramesar will present a series of paintings and digital animations in the temporary project space at 27 Pembroke Street in downtown Port of Spain.
“I approach a painting as a room,” explains the artist. “A character is put into a space where it will live forever.” In these works, non-human, subhuman, and superhuman figures abound, elements of fiction that the artist and her audience superimpose over real life. Anachronistic, incongruous, and iconic images merge to subvert conventional representations of Trinidad, as the normal and the calamitous co-exist. The discomfort, tension, and posturing of these figures are forceful rather than subtextual.
The artist writes: “Local art in the public consciousness is serene and picturesque. I was frustrated with figures that appeared contemplative, languid, or busy making merry without gaze. Local people and spaces are often treated as passive muses rather than individual characters.
“What or who gets to take up space, and what is shoved to the periphery? What is framed? Focal?”
All are invited.
Maya Ramesar is communications officer at the Trinidad and Tobago Association for the Hearing Impaired, as well as a freelance illustrator.
In collaboration with #ayardexchange and Cass’Mosha A. Centeno
27 Pembroke Street, Port of Spain
On Thursday 16 January, 2020, for one night only, artist Maya Ramesar will present a series of paintings and digital animations in the temporary project space at 27 Pembroke Street in downtown Port of Spain.
“I approach a painting as a room,” explains the artist. “A character is put into a space where it will live forever.” In these works, non-human, subhuman, and superhuman figures abound, elements of fiction that the artist and her audience superimpose over real life. Anachronistic, incongruous, and iconic images merge to subvert conventional representations of Trinidad, as the normal and the calamitous co-exist. The discomfort, tension, and posturing of these figures are forceful rather than subtextual.
The artist writes: “Local art in the public consciousness is serene and picturesque. I was frustrated with figures that appeared contemplative, languid, or busy making merry without gaze. Local people and spaces are often treated as passive muses rather than individual characters.
“What or who gets to take up space, and what is shoved to the periphery? What is framed? Focal?”
All are invited.
Maya Ramesar is communications officer at the Trinidad and Tobago Association for the Hearing Impaired, as well as a freelance illustrator.
In collaboration with #ayardexchange and Cass’Mosha A. Centeno
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