Solo-Exhibition with Felisha Carénage
12 June – 26 June 2026
BARAZANI.berlin, Projektraum Spreeufer 6m 10178 Berlin
Opening 12th June 7pm
Artist’s Tour 21st and 22nd June 5 pm
Performance: 22nd June, 5.30 pm
Opening hours: 20th - 23rd June, Saturday to Sunday: 2 pm – 6 pm and 26th June, Thursday: 3 – 6 pm
And by appointment. Please contact barazani.berlin@gmail.com
Trinidad and Tobago‘s Carnival is a slippery timespace between power and resistance, masquerading in fabric and metal, sequins and mud. In the Mas you are losing yourself - and finding something truer in the echo. “A life-or-death thing,” as artist Felisha Carénage calls it.
In Mas Camps, costumes for Carnival are conceived, problem-solved and then produced by passionate and often socially precarious persons. These are no ordinary workshops - they are sites of imagination, survival, and skill. This is where someone teaches you how to sew yourself a bargain with history. This is silk screen and wire-bending and wood-bending and tie-dye in play with class mobility, safety and progress. Dreams are stitched, feathered, and wrestled into being, then sweated off, scattered and swept up by Ash Wednesday morning.
In November 2024, Carénage transformed the Barazani space into such a Mas Camp as part of the Dekoloniale Festival. And now, she returns to Spreeufer 6.
To share with you what the Moko Jumbies have since themselves invoked. Stilt-walkers are divine ghosts, guardians of the in-between. Under their protection, a city is open to mas, laid out to its people. In these islands, including Berlin, we are all dreamers and goners performing death and longing in a gorgeous dance.
Come see! Come listen.
A solo presentation at Barazani.berlin. by Felisha Carénage, curated by Isabel Raabe. Featuring costumes for a performance commissioned by Dekoloniale Berlin in 2024, as well as recent artworks. The exhibition is accompanied by Private & Public guided tours.
Funded bySenatskanzlei für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt.
Further support has come from BPA// Berlin Program for Artists, 1000 Mokos and Alice Yard.
Credits photo: Damian Charles / Dekoloniale 2024
