otras montañas, las que andan sueltas bajo el agua
Ocean Space, 2025

otras montañas, las que andan sueltas bajo el agua [other mountains, adrift beneath the waves] is an exhibition curated by Dominican curator and researcher Yina Jiménez Suriel, featuring newly commissioned site-specific works by Nadia Huggins (b. Trinidad and Tobago) and Tessa Mars (b. Haiti). Presented at TBA21–Academy's Ocean Space in the former church of San Lorenzo, the exhibition ran from 5 April to 2 November 2025, and marks the culmination of The Current IV: Caribbean (2023–2025), the fourth edition of TBA21–Academy's flagship three-year curatorial fellowship programme and its tenth anniversary.

Drawing on the aesthetic strategies and tools of Maroon communities in the Caribbean, the exhibition advances an oceanic perspective as an alternative to landbound systems of knowledge and perception. Huggins's video installation A shipwreck is not a wreck guides visitors through the skeletal hull of a sunken vessel now inhabited by human and non-human entities in transformation. Mars's large-scale painting series a call to the ocean fills the opposite side of San Lorenzo's vertiginous nave with mountain landscapes imagined beneath the sea. The exhibition was accompanied by Echoes of the Sanctuary, presenting TBA21–Academy's long-term conservation and research work in Jamaica with the Alligator Head Foundation.