Marking the 10th anniversary of its curatorial multi-year fellowship program "The Current", TBA21–Academy presents "otras montañas, las que andan sueltas bajo el agua" [other mountains, adrift beneath the waves]. Led by Dominican curator Yina Jiménez Suriel, the exhibition brings together newly commissioned works by Nadia Huggins and Tessa Mars. Spanning site-specific video and sound installations, sculpture and large-scale paintings, the exhibition inhabits the historic former church of San Lorenzo.

The Ocean is a common space between the different embryonic horizons that seek to guarantee life on our planet today. While the interconnectedness that the Ocean offers is often perceived through its biological implications, the Ocean is also a common ground for contemporary emancipatory processes within the human species—processes that invariably extend to non-human forms of life. At the heart of these emancipatory movements lies an urgent imperative: to transcend the landbound perspective that has historically shaped and constrained both our sensory system and our modes of knowledge production. The symbolic and material structures we have inherited are anchored in a notion of the binary and the stable, and the Oceanic perspective offers an alternative framework that enables the formation of life through perpetual motion.

Within the framework of the long-term research project by Jiménez Suriel “la historia de las montañas” [the history of the mountains], the following strategies and tools have been identified: repetition, fugue, improvisation~freestyle, transmutation, oneiric processes, and flotation. Among these, in the expanse of planetary skin known as the Caribbean tectonic plate, improvisation~freestyle emerges as particularly significant, spanning life from the highest terrestrial peaks to the other mountains, adrift beneath the waves. For this reason, “The Current IV” has dedicated three years to its study and application.