Corrosion

With La Station Culturelle & unRepresented

Paris, France

2025

Jordan Beal

The grant to support contemporary French Caribbean and Amazonian creation, launched in 2025 by Rubis Mécénat with La Station Culturelle, a major player in the cultural field in Martinique, and the unRepresented by a ppr oc he fair, enables an artist living and working in Martinique, Guadeloupe, or French Guiana to present their work at the unRepresented fair in Paris and benefit from a tailor-made program of professional meetings related to the development of their artistic career.

The 2025 winner, Jordan Beal, works at the intersection of image and photography, reality and the capture of the imagination. His work blends techniques and substances, localized visions and collective abstractions. By deliberately damaging his negatives and prints with corrosive substances and fluids, particularly seawater, he seeks to break with the idea of a sovereign human subject in order to reveal the essence of the image. His work, rooted in his “islandness,” explores the notions of horizon and relationship.

This production and distribution grant aims to promote the dynamism of contemporary Caribbean and Amazonian creation in the Hexagon, while addressing the inequalities linked to the visibility and mobility of artists from these territories.

Jordan Beal

Jordan Beal (b. 1991, Martinique) evolves on the edge of image and photography, reality and imagination, his work blends techniques and substances, site-specific visions and collective abstractions.

Rooted in an experimental plastic expertise and influenced by his practice of musical composition, the artist manipulates the photographic negative - through submersion, chemical reaction, burial, double exposure or direct cutting - to reveal its tangible and poetic nature. Creating new ways of looking at the world, his works explore the past and present, taking a free and powerful look at the concepts of nature and territory.

He has taken part in many group exhibitions in the Caribbean, and his work has been featured in monographic exhibitions such as Pour faire le portrait d’une fleur, at Tropiques Atrium (2022) or Non-Lieux, at Patio 19 (Martinique, 2021). In 2023, he exhibited at the Biennale des Rencontres Photo de Guyane (cf. Éric Karsenty, Fisheye magazine #63). In January 2025, his Linéament series was presented at Le Hangar (Brussels) in the AImagine exhibition curated by Michel Poivert.