Akilah Watts, Alanis Forde, Anna Gibson: Arcadia: Often Dreamt, Seldom Lived : Verena Kerfin Gallery, Köthener Strasse 28, Berlin 10963
Past
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Overview
Akilah Watts, Alanis Forde, Anna Gibson – Arcadia: Often Dreamt, Seldom Lived
The Verena Kerfin Gallery is proud to present a group exhibition featuring three emerging voices from Barbados: Alanis Forde, Anna Gibson, and Akilah Watts. Arcadia: Often Dreamt, Seldom Lived brings together three distinct painterly approaches that engage with themes of identity, memory, and cultural self-understanding.
At the heart of their work lies an exploration of the body, belonging, and the friction between individual experience and collective history. The artists question how womanhood, home, and self-image are shaped in the Caribbean — navigating inherited colonial narratives, generational memory, and contemporary visibility.
Each artist employs her own visual language: from figurative painting to surreal compositions and collage-like textures. What unites them is a critical engagement with the idea of paradise — not as an external ideal, but as a layered, psychological, and cultural space.
Together, Forde, Gibson, and Watts offer a nuanced, empathetic, and powerful reflection on contemporary Afro-Caribbean life beyond exoticism and stereotype.
To view the catalogue of the show please click here.
Installation Views
Works
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Alanis FordeBack Window, 2024
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Alanis FordeFront Window, 2024
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Alanis FordeLast Day Of Summer, 2022
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Alanis FordeAtaraxis, 2021
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Alanis FordeLazurite, 2023
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Anna GibsonLandscape Study 1, 2023
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Anna GibsonBared Cocoon, 2021
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Akilah WattsUntitled, 2025
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Akilah WattsVeiled, 2023
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Akilah WattsBequeathing, 2025
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Akilah WattsFacade, 2023
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