At this year’s city-shaking, weekend-long bash, a triangular pavilion will be appearing amid the floats and dancers. Revellers can sneak inside for a rest – or climb on top and party
Composite: Copyright 2022 Glasshopper / NWE. © Sumayya Vally and Alvaro Barrington.Composite: Copyright 2022 Glasshopper / NWE. © Sumayya Vally and Alvaro Barrington.lvaro Barrington is recalling his first ever festival experience in Grenada: “I was maybe five years old and my cousins took me to J’ouvert,” he says, referring to the day that acts as a precursor to the main party in Caribbean culture.
‘A place for many different types of culture’ … Performers in costume at the main Parade day of the 2019 carnival.Born in Venezuela to a Haitian father, but having spent his early childhood with his maternal grandmother in Grenada, Barrington gravitated towards the annual west London party after arriving in the UK to study art seven years ago.
Vally was the youngest designer in the history of the Serpentine pavilion and Barrington is no less precocious. His first show on graduating from art school was at New York’s MoMA PS1 and he is represented by six galleries internationally, curators and critics impressed by his expanded vision for painting. His canvases, the mainstay of his practice, are invariably interrupted by textiles, woven threads and objects, often referencing his own biography.
In 2019, the last carnival before its pandemic hiatus, Barrington organised a float of his paintings to join the parade. “Just to hire a truck can cost anything between £10,000 and £30,000. Now there’s inflation, there’s the cost of fuel. It’s getting harder. So what you find is that a lot of the creativity has had to be reeled in and instead you’ll see advertising for liquor or whatever.
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