Suelae Robinson
artistiek onderzoek - collage - geluid - geschiedenis - schrijven - textiel
Suelae Robinson is an Antiguan artist, of English and Guyanese descent. Combining patchwork, embroidery, and poetry, her textile artworks explore past, present and future narratives of Caribbean people. Utilizing tools such as mythology and imagination, Suelae pieces together lost stories shared by the diasporic communities of the Caribbean. Her colorful textile pieces are often inspired by the natural flora and fauna in the Caribbean region, illuminating the links between cultural practices and nature. Her patchwork style, influenced by textiles practices from Africa, America and the Caribbean, shows the effect of cultural syncretism, a product of colonization. Sharing her own embodied knowledge and that of her community, her work uncovers the interpersonal effects of history, in an effort to create communal understanding and growth