Collection: Afrocaribbean stories - Laura Arminda Kingsley
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Laura Arminda Kingsley works primarily with painting, digital images, and sculpture. Her creations immerse the viewer in dense worlds where historical, mythological, and scientific references intermingle. She engages both Afrocaribbean inheritances and the pre-Columbian cultures of the Caribbean, which have often remained little known or marginalised within dominant narratives.
Her paintings evoke inhabited landscapes, caves, and subterranean worlds. These spaces are not merely physical sites; they point toward cosmologies, toward ways of understanding the origins of life. In certain Caribbean traditions, such as those of the Taíno peoples, caves are perceived as places of origin, almost as wombs or matrices. They embody a deep connection between human beings, the earth, and the elements. The myth the artist draws upon is known as “Cacibajagua.”
In parallel, Kingsley mobilises microbiology as a framework for reflection. She reminds us that all life is interconnected, that human beings are not separate from nature but fully part of it. Through her texts and images, she proposes a shift in perspective: to think of oneself not as an isolated individual, but as the result of a long history of the living, shaped through transformation and adaptation.
Murmurs of the Deep X: I Remember Being You
Depending on where the viewer stands, this ceramic piece can be seen as either the back of a human figure or the shape of a « cemí »—sculptures believed to house the spirit of a Taíno ancestor.
Black Behind the Ears
«Black Behind the Ears» is a resin sculpture whose title is an expression used in the Dominican Republic to mean that the entire population of the country is of African descent.
Symmetries VI
Watching this series, it feels as though you’re looking at an image taken under a microscope in a biology lab, and there is indeed a connection: Laura Arminda Kinsley is passionate about microbiology.
Symmetries V
Watching this series, it feels as though you’re looking at an image taken under a microscope in a biology lab, and there is indeed a connection: Laura Arminda Kinsley is passionate about microbiology.
Symmetries IV
En regardant cette série, on a l'impression d'être face à une image prise au microscope dans un laboratoire de biologie, et il y a effectivement un lien : Laura Arminda Kinsley est passionnée de microbiologie.
Symmetries III
Watching this series, it feels as though you’re looking at an image taken under a microscope in a biology lab, and there is indeed a connection: Laura Arminda Kinsley is passionate about microbiology.
Symmetries II
Watching this series, it feels as though you’re looking at an image taken under a microscope in a biology lab, and there is indeed a connection: Laura Arminda Kinsley is passionate about microbiology.
Symmetries I
Watching this series, it feels as though you’re looking at an image taken under a microscope in a biology lab, and there is indeed a connection: Laura Arminda Kinsley is passionate about microbiology.
Entrails of the Earth VII: Yemaya, Mami Wata and Guabancex
Laura Arminda Kingsley reimagines the mythological scene of the Three Graces using deities from Abya Yala and Africa.
2nd priority: Entrails of the Earth VIII: The Waters Within
This work is part of a series in which the artist explores the caves and underground lakes of the Dominican Republic, as well as those found in Switzerland and Namibia. Here, the artist focuses on the portrait of a female figure.
Entrails of the Earth II: Unlike her life, her descent to the depths was easy.
This work is part of a series in which the artist explores the caves and underground lakes of the Dominican Republic, as well as those found in Switzerland and Namibia. The round frame draws the viewer’s gaze to the scene of a woman bathing, surrounded by the interior of a cave.
Entrails of the Earth III: Collective Survival
This work is part of a series in which the artist explores the caves and underground lakes of the Dominican Republic, as well as those found in Switzerland and Namibia. Three female figures, one of whom is harder to spot, are resting and recharging their batteries inside the cave.
Entrails of the Earth IX: Mother Water
Here we may be seeing the underside of the figure of Maladamajaute depicted in the triptych from the ‘Afrocaribbean Stories’ exhibition.
Mother Water: Maladamatjaute was a Woman II
This triptych is mesmerising, as if the snake were wrapping itself around the viewer from whichever side they are viewing it from.
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