Abstract
Working with multiple mediums (oil painting, pastels, watercolour, textiles, mixed-media sculpture, photography, mixed-media installation, video), Indo-Caribbean artist Kelly Sinnapah Mary deploys a range of visual references that represent a fuller breadth of processes of creolisation than is sometimes recognisable in contemporary Caribbean art. Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales, Walt Disney characters, and Hindu gods and goddesses reside in each other and together on Sinnapah Mary’s canvases. This article argues that in her latest series, Quarantine (2020), these figures are not simply interlocutors in the artist’s explorations, but signifiers of interlocution as a mode of analysis and expression. Assembled over Covid-19 lockdown in her native Guadeloupe, Sinnipah Mary’s Quarantine artworks are tasked with storying her present and advancing analysis of her self.
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