This Very Humid Land
<p>One morning in 1981, the artist Christian Bertin walked into the office of Aimé Césaire, mayor of Fort-de-France, the capital of the Caribbean island of Martinique, in a pair of blue electrician’s overalls. Bertin had dodged the mayor’s secretary to reach his desk. He anticipated Césaire’s thinking. His overalls gave him away; he felt Césaire’s eyes flash in recognition. What could Bertin want from him that he hadn’t already given? This is what Bertin assumed. Whether he correctly guessed the reaction of the négritude movement scholar and decolonial architect is beside the point, because his thinking was informed by the history he carried with him into that room…</p>
Authors: Skye Arundhati Thomas
Artists: Christian Bertin
Part of: TextWork
ISSN: 27269949