Through geometric forms embodied in horizontal lines and vertical stripes, Remy Jungerman’s installations, sculptures and collages bring together modernist traditions in conversation with Surinamese Maroon culture. Using a seamless language of abstraction, Jungerman challenges notions of modernisms etched in exclusionary narratives.

Pimba AGIDA MADAFO V is inspired by the essence of the Agida, a long single-headed cylindrical drum from Suriname. The drum produces low toned sounds and is played to honour the earth. While “pimba” refers to the kaolin clay mineral, used in Winti religious tradition as a purification mineral. While the works are suggestive of paintings, they are assemblages on which pimba is layered onto the surface, resulting in intricately textured compositions of straight and curved lines — travelling lines, as if to measure something...distance, place, dislocation, relocation.

Photography Aatjan Renders

Photography Aatjan Renders

Photography Aatjan Renders

Jungerman’s horizontal works are inspired by the personal spaces where Winti devotees commune with their spiritual entities. Horizontals are composed of slats of varying length, width, and color, stacked atop one another or attached with small gaps in between. No matter the variety of additional elements or seeming randomness of a stack’s composition, the works always manifest balance. This stems from the Winti tradition of striving to achieve balance with one’s surroundings.

Photography Aatjan Renders

Jungerman’s horizontal works are inspired by the personal spaces where Winti devotees commune with their spiritual entities. Horizontals are composed of slats of varying length, width, and color, stacked atop one another or attached with small gaps in between. No matter the variety of additional elements or seeming randomness of a stack’s composition, the works always manifest balance. This stems from the Winti tradition of striving to achieve balance with one’s surroundings.