“We are the periphery of the periphery.”

Jennifer Smit on Dutch Caribbean art. Interview coming soon as part of Polvo’s TBA Mag on time-based art.

Jennifer Smit (1951) is an art historian and independent curator, residing in Curaçao. She was born on the island of Curaçao, she studied art history at the University of Amsterdam and graduated in 1980. She moved back to her native island in 1992. She has frequently curated Dutch Caribbean participation in exhibitions in the Caribbean region, such as Carivista in Barbados in 1998 and in 2000 the Bienal del Caribe in the Dominican Republic. Together with Adi Martis she wrote the first survey of the history of the visual arts of the Dutch Caribbean, Arte Dutch Caribbean Art, published in 2001. Presently she is a lecturer on non Western visual culture and art history at the Instituto Buena Bista, Curaçao Center for Contemporary Art. Frequently she lectures about Caribbean Art in Europe, the U.S. and the Caribbean region and has written extensively for local and Caribbean newspapers and journals about Dutch Caribbean art.