About

Lisandro Suriel is a contemporary visual artist born in 1990 in Saint Martin, a child from the African Diaspora, from the Dutch half of the Caribbean island. His photographic journey arose from the need to reclaim his own history and identity beyond the traditional Caribbean narrative framed by the arrival of “civilization” with Christopher Columbus and later by transatlantic slavery. A search for a Black Atlantic identity beyond the colonial scope of slavery: “Who am I ? Where do I come from? Where does my story begin? I find myself marooned on an island in a state of amnesia. Here, the only …