Artist of the caribbean

With time...

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C. Yacoub

30 Thousand...

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C. Yacoub

Tresor island

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Polibio Diaz

With the kind support of:

Alex Burke

Born in 1944 in Martinique

Living and working in Paris

In the dark recesses of some cities , some amazing installations catch our eyes , strange heaps of blankets , of clothes which seem to contain a human shape .

I drew some inspiration out of that to give shape to some recumbent figures , which after going through various metamorphosis , have become dolls , funerary-type dolls , known as Katchinas.

In the mid-seventies , I had already designed some small white dolls from bits of old sheet rags and I used to install them in black boxes and cases ; it was meant to evoke the vision of a partitioned , standardizing and alienating society.

Then came some fragments of architecture covered with black dust ; then some frameworks , sorts of altarpieces with hues of blue , of gold: some kind of nostalgia for the era that preceded the arrival of Christopher Columbus.

I also built some frameworks out of grocery pallets: places of confinement ,of detention . The idea was that somehow , with an archaeologist’s mind, I was to search and explore my confused collective memory , the history of the Caribbean.

The work The Spirit of the Caribbean (2006-2007) is a protest.

Since the seventies , I have deliberately chosen to express myself through archaic forms , against an ever-present use of the image.

EXPOSITIONS

2007 Infinite Island - Brooklyn Museum, NY, USA.

2006 Des hommes sans histoire? Projet Broken memory, Musée

des Arts derniers, PARIS

Les Otages , Forum Mondial des droits de l’homme, Cité

internationale des congres, NANTES

2003 Déchirures de l’histoire, Musée Départemental Albert

Demard, CHAMPLITTE et Le 19, Centre Régional d’Art

Contemporain, MONTBELIARD

2001 10e Biennale de Taiwan, Recent works by award winners,