Jérémie Priam

Jérémie PRIAM (B. 1989) is a young visual artist who lives and works in Martinique. He is a graduate of the Caribbean campus of Art, Fort de France Martinique.

He obtained his diploma as a graphic designer in 2013 and works in many fields related to visual communication. Influenced by regional and international artists, Jérémie Priam develops his work around the spiritual questioning linked to Humankind. These productions are imbued with many meditations, but above all come from a personal revolt linked to his religious education which he calls into question. He sees Christianity as a parasite that annihilates other beliefs. But in relation to his ancestry, he sees in it an lession in alienation.

From this frustration he acquired a strong interest in vanitas, a genre of still life that he would then reinterpret either through a personal vocabulary or through his own esoteric culture. Art becomes for him a means of resistance and discussion.

Jérémie experiments with various techniques and media, such as printmaking, video, drawing, installation, often using his body as a medium during his performances.

Everything is an opportunity for creation and display in the world of Jeremie Priam, as a contemporary artist he refuses nothing. A raw, provocative approach and a noteworthy aesthetic characterize this budding artist.

“My recent work relates to the emancipation of the black community, made possible through  Afrofuturism.  I am revisiting the ritual and ritualistic as an act of healing, which done in a continuous way, could hold the power to erase colonial wounds.”