From Mad in Puerto Rico: “In Notebook No. 1: Puerto Rico – Imagination and Possibilities there’s an image titled “The Antillean Continent ,” which was a tangible exploration of… well, I don’t even remember how it started. One day we were talking about the lack of connection between the Caribbean and the Antilles, and the idea came up: “What if we take all the islands, put them together and form a continent?” That’s where it came from, and from that we started talking about Ramón Emeterio Betances’s Antillean confederation.
So, the exhibition, in short, is the expansion of that concept: how we view maps as colonial or decolonial tools”
Read the full interview here and the English translation here.
