HOT SUN Caribbean Contemporary Art, is a curated platform for emerging and established Contemporary Artists of the Caribbean and its diaspora, based in the region and worldwide.

This platform will present the work of francophone, anglophone, hispanophone and many other contemporary artists, providing a major opportunity for the Caribbean and the diaspora to occupy space within the international Contemporary Art Market.

HOT SUN CCA is a space, a platform, an art gallery beyond-gallery walls, to share, discover, connect, acquire and engage with the work of emerging and established contemporary artists from the Caribbean.

An ever evolving repository of Caribbean Contemporary Art, HOT SUN CCA is guided by values of building community, dialogue, criticality, mobility, collaboration and the interconnected nature of these elements to Artists of our region and the sustainability of their practice.

Operating from a Caribbean frame

Throughout western history, the Caribbean has been a site of recurring conflict, violence, extraction, exploitation, commodification, oppression and erasure but simultaneously one of resistance, revolution, hybridization and resilience.

HOT SUN CCA acknowledges and embraces the alterity of the Caribbean, which is rooted in our indigenous, diverse stories and layered legacies throughout this region. This is not an imported gaze. Representation is key.

Beyond walls.

At a time where mobility is limited if not discouraged due to a global pandemic, it was important to re-think how creative and artistic practice could continue to be viewed, engaged with and become accessible to a wider community. And while nothing replaces or could replace the physical, full sensory interaction with a work of art, as we speak - open, borderless and de-confined spaces “hors les murs”/ beyond walls, are the new middle ground where we are free to connect with each other and to the global community in these times.

HOT SUN is a virtual space created and managed by CULTUREGO and is curated by Adeline Gregoire (b. 1981, Trinidad & Tobago).

Adeline Gregoire is an emerging curator and Artist who lives and works in Trinidad & Tobago. Her curatorial and artistic practice involves addressing themes of memory, postcolonial dynamics within the Caribbean, Global South and BIPOC communities. 

Recent Curatorial work
• November 2020/ Group Exhibition, States of Confinement. Granderson Lab, Belmont (Trinidad & Tobago)
• November 2019/ Exhibition Che Lovelace, A Place, A person. The LOFTT Gallery (Trinidad & Tobago)
• August 2019/ Exhibition Shannon Alonzo, IMPRINT. The LOFTT Gallery (Trinidad & Tobago)
• April 2018/ Digital installation Rodell Warner, Natural Attraction. Collaboration with CULTUREGO for Art After Hours at Grundlos Kollektiv (Trinidad & Tobago)

Mission & Vision

Since we began our creative journey in 2013, our work at CULTUREGO has been focussed on representation, inclusivity, accessibility and the need for more Caribbean and diasporic narratives. These threads are present in everything we do. HOT SUN, our online platform dedicated to the contemporary artscene, artscape is no different, and seeks to connect the Caribbean and its diaspora to and most importantly, to exist in the global art world.

There is no doubt, that the advent of a pandemic in 2020 has forced us all as artists and cultural producers - regionally and internationally - to re-imagine the work we do, get to the heart of why we produce content and continue to create and enable creative practice beyond traditional and conventional spaces, structures and systems.

Now, more than ever - we believe that Art is essential to life. Like air, it is non-negotiable. Art helps us question, re-imagine and re-create the world, engaging us at a profound, bodily level. Art makes us think, helps us to see, reimagine the invisible and dream what may seem impossible. Art is transformative as it is powerful.

An artist records, translates and helps in the restoration of collective memory. As such, the mission to intentionally amplify the artist’s voice/ story, as it resounds from the Caribbean - a region of 43 million people - is not only interesting, but it is vital to the present and the futures we are creating.

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