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Bahamian artists featured in Liverpool Biennial‏
By Dionne Benjamin-Smith
Oct 22, 2010 - 7:44:15 AM

The Liverpool Biennial is the largest contemporary visual arts events in the UK.  It is also one of the best attended in the world.  For ten weeks every two years, the city of Liverpool is transformed into the most amazing living gallery of new art, showcasing the best contemporary artists from around the world. This year’s Biennial showcases six programmes, one of which is called “City States,” a collection of shows exploring the cultural dynamics between cities and states. “City States” consists of six international Pavilions and a selection of artists from The Bahamas, Barbados, and Martinique were the focus of the Caribbean Pavilion in an exhibition called Three Moments.

In this exhibition, three moments become symbolized by three Caribbean islands; The Bahamas, Martinique and Barbados – ten artists selected on their ability to make work that responds to contemporary and historical global themes. The artists representing The Bahamas are John Beadle, Blue Curry, Lavar Munroe, Lynn Parotti and Heino Schmid.For the first time artists from The Bahamas are collectively making new work that responds to the city of Liverpool while maintaining a distinctive stance on a 21st Century Caribbean modernist aesthetic. 

Three Moments is selected and curated by Dominique Brebion (Martinique), Alissandra Cummins (Barbados), David A. Bailey (London, Acting Director National Art Gallery of The Bahamas), Holly Parotti (The Bahamas) and Allison Thompson (Barbados) in collaboration with the ICF (International Curators’ Forum).

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