"Co-imagining the Soumayree" explores masquerade as spiritual embodiment, cultural memory, and political resistance. This exhibition brings together traditional mas created at Vulgar Fraction and Kazillion Kollectiv, forming a dialogue across time, space, and practice.

The towering Moko Jumbie costumes crafted over the past two years by Robert Young of Vulgar Fraction are paired with Soumayree costumes previously brought to life by performers Sade Budhlall and Kamille Andrews. Together, these works thread performance, protest, and ancestral presence.

The Soumayree rides not only as a figure of celebration, but as a vessel of remembrance and resistance against war and displacement.

Through this convergence, Reimagining the Soumayree examines Carnival’s radical capacity to hold grief, to channel joy as rebellion, and to stand in solidarity with global struggles in festivals of liberation.

What does solidarity look like when joy becomes defiant—when mas becomes memory, protest, and prayer?