Event

Candice Sobers, artist and Cultural Studies MPhil candidate, presents her practice-based art exhibition: “The Aesthetics of the ‘Mundane’: Techniques of Resourcefulness and Survival among Working Class Trinidadians.” It is a contemporary study which has provided a purposeful lens into the lived realities of working class Trinidadians.

The exhibition’s opening night is tomorrow, Tuesday September 17, at the Art Society Gallery (Corner Jamaica Boulevard and St.Vincent Avenue, Federation Park, Port-of-Spain), from 6pm-9pm. The exhibition runs from September 18-25, from 10am-6pm daily.

More about Ms. Sobers' research

Mrs. Sobers' research is a contemporary study which has provided a purposeful lens into the lived realities of working class Trinidadians.  A primarily ethnographic, qualitative study explores the workings of survival, invention and resourcefulness in the management of poverty, of a sample group of members from six extended families. Her research seeks to answer the question, “what invaluable procedural techniques have been constructed by the working class Trinidadian in the management of poverty?” Sensitivity to their lived experiences and a record of the mystery of their contention was recreated not as an explanation but rather for feeling and entry.

The “mundane”, referring to the day-to-day lives of the six participant families’ is a subjective term which cannot be presented homogeneously.  An aggressive conceptual, interpretative artistic body of work including a combination of paintings, drawings and crafts has embedded their descriptive perspectives of their banality of experiences. By means of ethnomethodology, a handbook of sixty such resourceful techniques has been summarised and archived.