#belizeanart

Saturday filming in front of the Streatham Tate Library. slides: 1 Streatham Libraries Commissioners 1890 Higgs & Hill Builders S. R. J. Smith ARIBA arch, slide 2: A Gift to the Inhabitants of Streatham from Henry Tate, Park Hill, slide 3: A glass pane with vinyl: Streatham Tate Library below in a row of three yellow poster wellbeing bus info, white poster Tate opening hours, a lime green poster on left, with coloured squares in pattern on right Streatham Tate Library Presents Psook Art, behind these posters a white bust of Henry Tate, below a red vinyl which with text: Sir Henry Tate 1819 -1899, the Founder of the Tate Gallery and a local resident paid for this library to be built for Streatham in 1888, slides 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 are photos taken from different angles of this massive building which was the main library (check last post about Balham Library) built by the philanthropist and sugar magnate, who made his fortune after purchasing the patent for the sugar cube in 1872. this work was developed during and supported by the artist residency for Central American artists by @gasworkslondon and the Elephant Trust who manages the Shelagh Wakely Bequest. #videoperformance #artistresidency #centralamericanart #caribbeanart #belizeanart #sugarlegacies (at Tate Library Streatham) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbAsSquNj41/?utm_medium=tumblr

Saturday filming in front of the Streatham Tate Library. slides: 1 Streatham Libraries Commissioners 1890 Higgs & Hill Builders S. R. J. Smith ARIBA arch, slide 2: A Gift to the Inhabitants of Streatham from Henry Tate, Park Hill, slide 3: A glass pane with vinyl: Streatham Tate Library below in a row of three yellow poster wellbeing bus info, white poster Tate opening hours, a lime green poster on left, with coloured squares in pattern on right Streatham Tate Library Presents Psook Art, behind these posters a white bust of Henry Tate, below a red vinyl which with text: Sir Henry Tate 1819 -1899, the Founder of the Tate Gallery and a local resident paid for this library to be built for Streatham in 1888, slides 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 are photos taken from different angles of this massive building which was the main library (check last post about Balham Library) built by the philanthropist and sugar magnate, who made his fortune after purchasing the patent for the sugar cube in 1872. this work was developed during and supported by the artist residency for Central American artists by @gasworkslondon and the Elephant Trust who manages the Shelagh Wakely Bequest. #videoperformance #artistresidency #centralamericanart #caribbeanart #belizeanart #sugarlegacies (at Tate Library Streatham) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbAq1bNNwDF/?utm_medium=tumblr

@the_cayetano_gallery ・・・ “Hurricane Hattie Belize” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Pen Cayetano ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 75 x 104 cm (29.5 x 40.9 in). Oil on Canvas. 1996. We are grateful that a majority of Belize was not destroyed from Hurricane Nana. There is no reported loss of life, due to a government that chose to work together to provide ample warning during a potentially hard hitting natural disaster, and citizens that wisely chose to heed the warnings over politics. As a peaceful nation and example to the world, Belize’s people chose to come together as one, assisting those in need to help prepare for the worst. We continue to take pride as a loving nation to safely assist our neighbors in rebuilding our homes, businesses, and farms. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ A Historic Hurricane…”Hurricane Hattie” ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In 1961, Hurricane Hattie tore through Belize (then known as British Honduras) as a Category 4 hurricane! The country sustained the worst damage from the hurricane in all the Caribbean. 75% of Dangriga was evacuated. 10,000 people went homeless from the destruction. Because Belize City was destroyed and flooded, the government changed Belize City as the capital to a safer inland city of Belmopan. Hattie caused about $60 million in losses and 307 deaths. The total destruction and loss of life was so heavy that the name Hattie was retired by the World Meteorological Organization and will never again be used for an Atlantic hurricane. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The Cayetano Family Collection ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #HurricaneHattie #PenCayetano #BelizeanArt #GarifunaArt #FineArtPaintings #Belize #CaribbeanArt #AfroCaribbeanDiaspora #OilPainting #BelizeHurricane #HurricaneNana #BelizeWeather ExpressionismPainting (at Belize, Central America) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEvZlogBNij/?igshid=1amhc18vcndv8

oh mai gawd! al Image Factory Art Foundation le ocurrió hacer un libro de mi trabajo. am very happy and very grateful. #belizeanart #artecontemporaneocentroamericano #caribbeancontemporaryart note: the image on the poster is from 2014. It is inspired by a performance by @crack_rodriguez whose ALL YOU CAN REFEEL reflected on the hunger and power relationship by eating a part of the ballot paper in the second round of the Presidential elections in El Salvador in 2014. (see his profile for more on that work). In Belize, at the launch of BAFFU, (an e-magazine which ran from 2014-2018. 13 issues, one in print: BAFFU 10) one single copy of the e-magazine was printed then shredded at the end of the launch. i took a large handful of the shredded paper, and put it in my mouth. In Belize we have different kinds of hunger and power dynamics. i would like you to support this, because it will give you a quick look into my work: installation, poetry, writing, performance etc. It is a collaboration between myself and director of IFAF @yassermusa4 Ademas de eso cumplo 34 en agosto, así que sería genial que compren un libro. Si vendo muchos tal vez iré a caye caulker a tomar una cerveza en frente del mar, o algo así. Thanks (at Ladyville, Belize) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCNYqOwFWxZ/?igshid=whik0w3xkxth

in 2008 my teacher @moarquechraul helped me to develop "Facing the Music" a performance i did in December, 2008. It was maybe the 3rd performance i had ever done and was the last work i did as a university student. i left my program (licenciatura en artes visuales) that same month and year. This work used popular slangs, words and phrases from Spanish, especially Spanish spoken in Mérida, Yucatán, México. Language IS racialised. Racism is interwoven into the very fabric of language, especially colonisers' languages. The action consisted in printed reworkings of phrases/words intervened with my own interpretation as a Black woman, a non-native Spanish speaker, along with idiomatic expressions from English (another coloniser language of which i am a native speaker) and Kriol and even Jamaican patois (hot wuk, a popular dancehall song and dance). Raul was pivotal in helping me access my voice for this process and helping me to fine tune the project over all. These reworkings were printed in black text on white shirts. i wore the tshirts in the park in the centre of Mérida, la ciudad blanca. As the inferred subject of these phrases, wearing these phrases, confronting people in the park, in a square of the Cathedral, the City Hall, Theatre and Casa Montejo. It was a symbol wearing symbols within a symbolic space. What do these phrases mean to you? Why do you say them? Do you say them to Black people? Of the shirts of this performance, this one is missing. Must have gotten lost in my quick move back to Belize. i have no clue how i worked this particular phrase. i hope that i was clever. This is a updated version of that work, from 12 years ago, white background with black text which reads: "no es lo mismo relleno negro a que te rellene un negro" and black background with white text which responds: "laik how yu ku si difrans; hypersexualising us is dehumanising us" yes i am constantly thinking of tropes attached to Black people. #newwork #conceptualartist #artecontemporaneocentroamericano #caribbeancontemporaryart #belizeanart https://www.instagram.com/p/CCAKhu7lYsI/?igshid=1t968shyf0mnb

“Alugarahatu Bayabu (Seller by the Beach)” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Hmm. Are you really going to support black artists? Like really though? @The_Cayetano_Gallery has an amazing selection of fine art by famous artists of color, and art of color. Email us for pricing on all our pieces and more! Share our profile and art with your followers and tag us!⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Pen Cayetano 105 x 80 cm (41.3 x 31.5 in). Oil on Canvas. 2004. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Email for pricing on your favorite piece. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ https://www.instagram.com/p/CBo6uq4hTre/?igshid=um1vw1h4ql58

“Chief Chatoyer” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Pen Cayetano. @The_Cayetano_Gallery. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 30 x 70 cm (11.8 x 27.6 in). Oil on Canvas. 2010. Chief Joseph Chatoyer (pronounced: sha-tu-yay) is one of the most important black leaders and heroes in the history of the Caribbean, as leader of the Garinagu’s home, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. He led battles and treaties, defeating capture and colonization by the British, Spanish and the French! On March 14, 1795 he was killed by the warring British. From pure stubborn fighting alone, the Garinagu were the ONLY BLACK PEOPLES TO NEVER BE ENSLAVED by Europeans!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Subsequently, by genocide the darker skinned Garinagu were banished to the barren Baliceaux island, and the rest shipped off to die at neighboring Central American lands like Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Belize. He symbolizes the powerful bloodline of Garifuna strength and survival through the Afro-Caribbean Diaspora and oppression by Europeans. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Click Email on our profile for pricing. #BelizeanArt #PenCayetano #GarifunaArt #FineArtPaintings #Belize #CaribbeanArt #AfroCaribbeanDiaspora #Garifuna #BelizeCraft #Portrait #Painting #BelizeHistory #GarifunaHistory #BlackHistory #HondurasHistory #StrongMen #BlackMen #BlackHeroes #BlackLeaders (at Caribbean Islands) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBRQlRZB__9/?igshid=1kg41hx27rll7

i read somewhere that selfies help with the algorithm. no sé pero, lo voy a intentar. Here with a piece called Heeled, 2012. 2 wooden high heels size 9 made by Tony, Gary and Richard Peyrefitte, under the watchful eye and advice of their father Ignatius Peyrefitte. The Peyrefitte family are master sculptors of the various woods of Belize. The father is the nephew of one Belize's biggest and most renown artists George Seymour Gabb M.B.E. a poet, playwright, sculptor, writer. His work changed sculpture in Belize by moving from Eurocentric features to Black and Indigenous features, which was a BIG concept and resistance in colonial and even post-colonial Belize. My concept was to make these life-sized heels that i would not be able to wear (these were modelled after a favourite pair, which were super cute but pinched like hell, plus i have an ankle issue from a while back. a guy ran a large plank over my left ankle and instep with his truck at a bdf fair back in 2011. So i hardly wear heels now though i love them so very much). This work was part of a larger research i was doing on high heels and their long history, origins and contemporary uses. #caribbeanart #artecentroamericano #belizeanart #sculpture #womxnswork (at Ladyville, Belize) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-u6MfRl8RI/?igshid=1wt6d8q6gim94