Welcome to the latest iteration of our mission to illuminate Caribbean narratives through contemporary art. Building on our foundation as a platform for diasporic voices, this volume continues our tradition of weaving historical context with present-day artistic expression.
The horizon is both a physical phenomenon and a conceptual device. In the Caribbean, it is an ever-present line where sea meets sky, where land gives way to the unknown. Volume 08 gathers artists that view the horizon not as an end, a border line, or a place of division, but as a parameter of liberation. Their work runs counter to the idea of a fixed or determinate aesthetic of Caribbean artistic production. “Just Past the Horizon” becomes an interstitial holding place for the imperceivable, a site where complexity, ambiguity, and resistance are actively produced.
Through diverse mediums and perspectives, we welcome artists to challenge the long-standing expectation that Caribbean art must be figurative, narrative, or ethnographic in order to be legible. For some artists, this alternate realm is articulated through abstraction and material experimentation by using color fields, gestural marks, and layered surfaces to evoke the sensation of looking outward into something vast and unreachable. Other artists may approach the horizon as an ancestral realm with the sea carrying the memory of those who did not arrive, those whose lives were claimed in transit. Conceptual and installation-based works can invoke the horizon as a portal to submerged histories and spiritual presence. The horizon can also be a place where artists are challenging violent military colonial structures by building and imagining new futures for life in the Caribbean.
In Volume 08, artists confront historical erasure through a visual and conceptual language that emphasizes imagination, creativity, and aspiration that centers the Caribbean as a realm of possibility. This volume brings together contemporary artists from the Caribbean who engage the horizon not as a backdrop or compositional device, but as a threshold into other ways of knowing and being. Here, the horizon functions as a speculative zone: a site where memory drifts, where ancestral knowledge surfaces, and where alternative futures emerge. In this space that collides reality and fantasy, Caribbean artists articulate new ways of seeing that honor the past, confront the present, and gesture toward possibilities that remain just beyond the line where sea meets sky.
Deadline: February 6th, 2026
Guidelines:
Be prepared to answer the following questions in the submission form above
Name, email, artist bio, website/instagram/portfolio
Name, year(s), and project statement or description of work
Images, previews or files associated with this project. High-resolution print-ready files are not needed at this time and will be requested at a later date if your work is selected to be printed. (optional)
If this work has been previously published or exhibited, please provide the names and dates of the publications or exhibitions. (optional)
Additional notes our team should know about this project. (optional)
FAQ:
Can I submit more than one project? Yes! However we will only choose 1 project per artist. We want to see your strongest body of work.
Can I submit a collaborative project? Yes, you can submit a project that has been created by yourself and other artists. Please submit under the name that you would like to appear in print if you are selected.
Does the work have to be new and exclusive to Forgotten Lands? Not at all! Work submitted is allowed to have been exhibited elsewhere (non-exclusive to Forgotten Lands), ideally all work was completed within the last 2-3 years.
Additional questions? Email us at hello@forgottenlandsart.com