Thomias Radin Burn for rebirth, 2025

Thomias Radin’s practice is centered in an embodied knowledge formed by his background in dance as well as by growing up between the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe and France. Music and dance enter formally into his painting practice with its fragmented bodies, animated lives, gestural brushstrokes, sampling, as well as through the rhythms of hip hop, Gwo Ka, and Capoeira. The artist's engagement with the legacy of Caribbean music and dance goes hand in hand with an examination of its long-underappreciated influence on Black avant-garde choreography. For Radin, the Black subjects of his paintings, sculptures, performances, and films are carriers of memory and movement. Movement that tells a story of deep spirituality, inherited, linked to ancient knowledge, yet still evolving and alive.