For the 7th edition of the Grenada Contemporary Exhibit, the curators would like to extend an open call to artists around the theme, “Dream Well”. This theme is extracted from a passage written by Gaston Bachelard in On Poetic Imagination and Reverie. To paraphrase, Bachelard tells us that it is not enough [as artists] to see well – combining all of the things we have been exposed to so far, but to dream well, or to allow imagination to bring us into harmony with the intangible themes of the universe.
“Reverie gives us the world of a soul [and] a poetic image bears witness to a soul which is discovering its world, the world where it would like to live and where it deserves to live… Poetry [and art] forms the dreamer and his world at the same time.”
“Poets [artists] lead us into cosmoses which are being endlessly renewed.”
Gaston Bachelard was Édouard Glissant’s thesis advisor at the Sorbonne in Paris and it is apparent how some of his ideas of poetics trickled into Glissant’s own writing. In both cases, dreaming well is synonymous with imagining a future that one would like to partake in and actualize. More so than having good dreams at night, dreaming well takes practice; to undertake the task of seeing what is in front of you and proposing a better world.
Artists for the 7th Grenada Contemporary are invited to submit paintings, drawings, photography, sculptures, installation, video, or written pieces for consideration. Submissions are open from now and the deadline for submission is August 23rd, 2024. Images of artwork can be sent to arthouse473@gmail.com. The Grenada Contemporary Exhibit will be held in September at a date to be determined.
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