Towards is pleased to present Back Home, an exhibition of new paintings by Kareem–Anthony Ferreira.
Drawing inspiration from his first trip back to Trinidad in nearly five years, the exhibition expands upon Ferreira’s exploration into themes of family, identity, memory, and place.
Comprised of four large-scale paintings, the works within Back Home are imbued with a warmth and an intimacy. Informal moments are rendered with great care. The paintings themselves are richly layered, with Ferreira building up the surface through an assemblage of cut paper, and textiles. Interweaving memory and materiality, the recurring motifs collaged throughout the paintings reference many of the flowers and fauna that have become associated with the Caribbean. Throughout the works, there is a dynamic interplay between the highly rendered figures and looser passages within each painting, with broad swathes of the backgrounds dissolving into their base components of light, colour, and form.
For this particular trip, Ferreira travelled with his extended family, many of whom make appearances in within the painting . Multiple generations are represented, charting a story that is both at once intensely personal and while still being universally identifiable.
