Exhibition Opening: ‘Paradise Close’

Join us for the opening of Daisy Jones’ new immersive installation, Paradise Close.

About the Exihibition

Enter Paradise Close, where an eternal off-season haunts a land previously known as the Caribbean. This immersive installation unveils traces of a vanished Black culture, challenging perceptions of paradise and cultural memory. Discover the elusive remnants of a world seen through the eyes of its visitors.

Eerie and immersive, a distant voice beckons visitors into the space and towards a peculiar portal, one that resembles a tanning bed, its bright light compelling them, like a bug to a bug-zapper. Daisy presents a Caribbean whose off-season has extended into forever. One in which Black people do not exist, and the memory of whom can only be traced through the ghostly remnants of their culture scattered throughout the exhibition.

Paradise Close explores the myth of paradise projected onto the Caribbean. Examining themes of cultural myth and memory, reimagining, and colonial extraction, the exhibition is envisioned as an abandoned, uncertain space, a ghostly echo of a Caribbean that once was, or perhaps of what it may become.

The exhibition will be open until the 16th of August and is open, free, to the public. Find more details and the opening hours on the exhibition page.

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