Paul Kain

Location
Trinidad and Tobago

Artists Biography
Paul Kain holds a B.A. Fine Art, has had five solo exhibitions and has participated in a number of group shows in Trinidad. He has also exhibited in the UK, Haiti, South Africa. He builds architectural models and set-designs. During Trinidad’s annual carnival season he designs and produces carnival costumes. He recently participated in the 2nd Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince Haiti.

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Trinidad & Haiti - Visual Art Exchanges
Haiti
Anderson Ambroise, Edward Craft, Pascale Faublas, Payen Ernst
Trinidad
Kwynn Johnson, Paul Kain, Yao Ramesar

Conceptual Statement
The overarching methodology for this show seeks to use the multiple platforms of new internet technologies. This process is a way in which to "dissolve the boundaries" which have separated art practices around the globe. These shows in the Tate's Oil Tanks allow us an opportunity to participate in a collaborative exhibition in London, with us in the Caribbean. Trinidad & Haiti - Visual Art Exchanges comes out of an 18-month series of exchanges and on-going conversations among the seven of us who are participating. Johnson, Ramesar and Kain from Trinidad, and Ambroise, Ernst, Craft and Faublas from Jacmel Haiti. Our seven interconnected bodies of work being presented range from film, sculpture, craft, drawing, painting and recuperated found materials. They centre on investigations in the context of Haiti, merging a view through a Trinidadian lens, with a Haitian visual language which speaks back to the viewer. This exchange has enabled critical conversations which continue to inform our art practices on both islands.