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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\tMunroe\u2019s own costume, alongside one once worn by his daughter, is installed in a riotous back room, flanked by ferocious tiger masks and a rippling white wave suspended overhead. Junkanoo revelry is dedicated to the dead, and here Munroe commemorates Beadle through a series of paintings depicting a memorial procession based on photographs by the Bahamian photographer Jackson Petit, as well as through Beadle\u2019s material legacy. Munroe incorporates ideas from Beadle\u2019s sketchbooks and materials found in his studio, including sailcloth from Haitian sloops\u2014aptly echoing the exhibition\u2019s title, \u201cIn Another Man\u2019s Yard.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tBeadle died in 2024 at the age of 60, with the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas describing his passing as leaving \u201ca cavernous space in the visual and creative arts in the Bahamas.\u201d Beadle studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Tyler School of Art, as did Munroe, developing a practice of imbuing found and industrial materials\u2014metal, black iron, tarpaulin, cardboard, and wood\u2014with new purpose across painting, sculpture, and installation. Large cardboard cutouts of human and natural figures drawn from Junkanoo iconography were a hallmark of his practice; examples appear in the Venice presentation. In\u00a0Inverted Tree, Man for Hire<\/em>\u00a0(2004), for example, the trunk of a wily branched tree bears a piercing gaze.<\/p>\n \n\tBringing Beadle\u2019s work to Venice was first envisioned in 2014, one year after the Bahamas\u2019 Venice debut, according to 2026 pavilion curator Krista Thompson. At the time, Beadle was researching Venice\u2019s maritime culture, viewing the lagoon city as a kindred archipelago defined by tourism and a long-standing woodworking tradition tied to boats and oars. However, government funding was withdrawn from the project.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Venice presentation was later revived through support from Baha Mar, a resort company with a significant investment in contemporary art in the Bahamas, making the 2026 iteration with Munroe possible. John Cox, executive director of arts and culture at Baha Mar and co-founder of the Fuse Art Fair, told ARTnews<\/em> that \u201cIn Another Man\u2019s Yard,\u201d from his perspective, is a necessary correction to the global imagination of the Bahamas, shaped for decades by successful advertising \u2014 white sands, crystal water, and good times \u2014 yet largely absent of Bahamian faces and voices.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cNothing could be further from the truth than the idea of a monolithic Bahamas,\u201d Cox said. \u201cIf you sit in a room with Bahamians, you go: \u2018Whoa \u2014 I didn\u2019t know this is what the Bahamas looks like.’\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tBahamian artists, he added, are inadvertently becoming ambassadors for a deeper experience of the Bahamas, one he suggests is more sustainable as tourism shifts in a global context, where visitors have increasingly varied options. The Biennale\u2019s title,\u00a0In Minor Keys<\/em>, chosen by its late artistic director Koyo Kouoh, resonates here in its attention to overlooked histories as spaces of repair and reparation.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIt\u2019s about reassigning expectations \u2014 definitions of what it means to be Bahamian. What is the Bahamian experience? Who is a Bahamian?\u201d he told ARTnews. \u201cThere\u2019s nuance, complexity, modernism, elements assigned to us that the creative community best embodies.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/bahamian-pavilion-brings-junkanoo-to-venice-biennale-standout-1234784359\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/no-matter-how-dreary.jpeg?w=1024″] After a thirteen-year hiatus, the Bahamian Pavilion has returned to Venice with a proposition that is as much educational as representational: that the Caribbean nation can be reintroduced to the world through its contemporary artistic inheritance. To do so, the pavilion turns to the late master John Beadle and his former student […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1923448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1923448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1923448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1923448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1923448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}