Caribbean Beat — November/December 2021 (#167)

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Left Duperly Brothers. Port Royal, Jamaica,c. 1890. Albumen print, overall: 25.6 × 36.2 cm.Gift of Patrick Montgomery, through the AmericanFriends of the Art Gallery of Ontario Inc., 2019.© Art Gallery of Ontario 2019/3071Below Kelly Sinnapah Mary, Notebook of NoReturn, 2017. Acrylic painting on paper, 43.2 x 50.8cm. Private Collection © Kelly Sinnapah Marybe the largest collection of historical images ofthe region outside the geographical Caribbean.Now Crooks has brought together selectionsfrom the Montgomery Collection with works byapproximately thirty modern and contemporaryCaribbean and diaspora artists, to “show howthe region’s histories are constantly revisited andreimagined through artistic production over time.”“The story of the Caribbean and its artists isn’tone story,” says Crooks, “but a kaleidoscope ofhistories and voices and experiences, best understoodthrough the interplay of them all.” She alsonotes that Toronto is a major centre of the globalCaribbean diaspora, and works by Canada-basedartists are prominent here. These include a newlycommissioned work by Toronto-based SandraBrewster, whose Feeding Trafalgar Square (2021)is based on an old photo of the artist’s motheron a holiday visit to London — “turning a joyfulmoment into a moving meditation on what itmeans to be displaced.”Among the other “fragments” assembledby Crooks are paintings by the Guyana-bornmodernists Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling,a large-scale video installation by JamaicanEbony G. Patterson, and works by artists such asChristopher Cozier of Trinidad and Tobago, FireleiBáez of the Dominican Republic, Nadia Huggins ofSt Vincent, and Kelly Sinnapah Mary of Guadeloupe.In the AGO galleries, these works areinterspersed among approximately two hundredphotographs from the Montgomery Collection,manifesting both affinities and discordancesacross time. What to make of those affinities anddiscordances — how exactly to assemble thefragments, into what shapes, and why — is thequestion the exhibition poses to each visitor. n36 WWW.CARIBBEAN-BEAT.COM
Above left Unknown. Martinique Woman, c. 1890.Albumen print, overall: 14.6 × 10.2 cm. MontgomeryCollection of Caribbean PhotographsPurchase, with funds from Dr Liza & Dr FrederickMurrell, Bruce Croxon & Debra Thier, Wes Hall& Kingsdale Advisors, Cindy & Shon Barnett,Donette Chin-Loy Chang, Kamala-Jean Gopie,Phil Lind & Ellen Roland, Martin Doc McKinney,Francilla Charles, Ray & Georgina Williams, Thaine& Bianca Carter, Charmaine Crooks, NathanielCrooks, Andrew Garrett & Dr Belinda Longe, NeilL. Le Grand, Michael Lewis, Dr Kenneth Montague& Sarah Aranha, Lenny & Julia Mortimore, and TheFerrotype Collective, 2019. © Art Gallery of Ontario2019/2208Above right Sandra Brewster. Feeding TrafalgarSquare, 2021. Photo-transfer on wood. Art Galleryof Ontario. Commission, with funds from theWomen's Art Initiative, 2021. © Sandra BrewsterLeft Ebony G. Patterson. ...three kings weep...,2018. Three-channel digital colour videoprojection with sound, running time: 8 minutes,34 seconds. Purchase, with funds from thePhotography Curatorial Committee, 2020.© Ebony G. Patterson, courtesy Monique MelocheGallery, Chicago. 2019/2469For more information onFragments of Epic Memory, seeago.ca/exhibitions/fragments-epicmemoryWWW.CARIBBEAN-AIRLINES.COM37
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