The University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery is pleased to present “What is the Poesis of Dis-Possession? Cartographies of Spirit and Signal,” an exhibition featuring the work of Trinidad-born, Chicago-based artist Sherwin Ovid. The exhibition opens Jan. 12 and runs through Feb. 19.
The exhibition presents recent works by Ovid that prompt the viewer to reconsider how the Caribbean has been historically imagined and represented as a region. Ovid layers forms and materials evocative of sea creatures, the invisible network of submarine internet cables and coordinate systems of cartography to examine how the movement of people and digital signals might constitute new but invisible forms of relation across the Caribbean and its diaspora.