Curating the Art of Caribbean Miami

"Water between us remembers...." one of the works on display as part of "The Other Side of Now" at the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) this art season. The collection includes pieces from 14 Caribbean artists, imagining the region's future.

Deborah Jack

Puerto Rican PAMM associate curator Maria Elena Ortiz is one of the visionaries behind "The Other Side of Now." Says Ortiz, "So much Caribbean art feels entangled with questions about the past... We wanted to explore how contemporary art in the region is moving beyond these tropes."

UWI lecturer and co-curator Dr Marsha Pearce hails from Trinidad. "We posed questions to the artists and allowed themes to emerge from their work... We're still fighting existing expectations of what the Caribbean aesthetic should look like."

"Church in the Wild," one of the works on display as part of "The Other Side of Now" at the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) this art season. The show runs through June 7, 2020.

Lavar Monroe