Assemblée narrative at Musarth exhibition poster
Gaya and Only Extended in use by Studio T&D for the exhibition Assemblée narrative – fragments de récits de roches et d’eaux at the Musarth, the Guadeloupean Departmental Museum of Art and History, presented as follows:
narrative assembly proposes to open up stories around a part of Caribbean and Guadeloupean heritage, which are the engraved rocks. Based on a will not to appropriate the signs, faces, and forms of the petroglyphs, these proposals were developed through dialogues with researchers who are currently working to understand and rewrite the tool, that is Guadeloupean archaeology.
Anchored in lands often bordered by water, engraved rocks often resist the museum space, so why talk about an exhibition?
The choice of the term “narrative assembly” seems more appropriate to what the engraved rocks convey to us and what they allow us to tell, say, and shape, in reciprocity.
An assembly to tell (ourselves) other poetic fabrications of reality and the significance of its stories, that have come down to us.
