The third issue of Town engages with the Paramaribo SPAN project, a survey of contemporary art and visual culture in Suriname.

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 ”Kibri a Kulturu”

Marcel Pinas; teaching the former motherland…

 ‘Un de ete’ (We are still here), 72.000 spoons and wire, 2009

There is still a lot left unsaid about the history that lies between the Netherlands and their former colony Surinam. Let alone that in Holland one often speaks of the Maroon people that live deep in the forests of the interior. The Municipality Museum of The Hague invited Surinam artist Marcel Pinas (b.1971) for an exhibition in their satellite space called ‘Gemak’ in the center of the residential city of the Netherlands. As a member of the Maroon community, the Ndyuka from the Eastern parts of Surinam, Marcel Pinas seems to be on a mission to tell the world about his culture, his people and his view on the distressing situations they have been through.
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