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At the Edges of Paradise : Urban Imaginaries in the Caribbean Post-Colonial City
Symposium : Exhibiting Art from the French- and Creole- speaking Caribbean: sociological, historical, art historical, 
and museological perspectives, Harvard University, USA, 2026




The Caribbean has been photographically constructed as an empty space . Not
uninhabited, but stripped of its cities, its people, and its contemporary life, in 
favor of landscapes that stage a sense of availability. Krista Thompson
has shown how this visual regime was historically produced : beaches without
people, palm trees without neighborhoods, a "tropicalized" landscape produced
for outside consumption that has outlived the colonial moment that created it
and is still very much with us today. What makes this particularly striking is what
geographers tell us about the region. Rivke Jaffe points out that the Caribbean
is in fact one of the most urbanized regions in the world :  Martinique alone reaches
over 90 percent urbanization. And yet, the postcolonial Caribbean cities remain
almost entirely absent from the image of the Caribbean that circulates internationally,
including, I would argue, within photography and museum collections. This erasure
is not neutral. It shapes what gets collected, what gets exhibited, and ultimately
what is understood as Caribbean art.