The culture of the archipelagos is not terrestrial—as are almost all cultures—; its fluvial and marine. It’s a culture of directions not routes; of approximations, not exact results. Here, the world of straight lines and angles (the corner, the inclined plane, the crossroads) doesn’t dominate; what dominates is the fluid world of curves.

-Antonio Benítez-Rojo, The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective

The Caribbean is not a determinate territory. It is not a region on a map with a set of geographic coordinates that clearly delineate its limits. It is a geographic and historical fact… a meta-archipelago, without frontiers and devoid of a center, that is comprised of differences. The ongoing historical processes of conquest, colonization, and migration that constitute the Caribbean as a space produce artistic practices that flow freely between senses, knowledge systems, and forms. A Fact of Differences is an exhibition that gathers works by four artists from the Caribbean whose artistic practices are situated in this indeterminate space: between the formal and the informal, Western art history and Afro-Caribbean and indigenous knowledge, the imagined and the real. Unmoored from categories and hierarchies between cultural manifestations—and circumventing cultural signifiers that might point to strictly regional understandings—the artworks in the exhibition negotiate forms, influences, and histories to articulate syncretic processes and objects.