Glenpherd

Glenpherd (Curaçao, 1997) is a researcher and maker working at the intersection of social sciences, visual culture, and archival praxis. His work examines how histories are constructed and transmitted, particularly through the lens of Caribbean oral histories and Dutch colonial legacies. Through film and text, he animates underrepresented stories and builds a future-oriented archive—combining critical cultural analysis with reflexive knowledge production.

Inspired by Nanzi stories, Glenpherd unsettles colonial narratives that shape accepted ‘truths’ about the Caribbean by counterposing the written colonial archive with new performances of orature as acts of repair. Most recently, for NDSM-werf’s Museumnacht, he debuted the performance lecture Tur Kos ta Kaba na Kuenta (Everything Ends in Stories), presented alongside a sonic installation of ‘talking’ shells that blends poetic narrative, archival speculation, and embodied memory.

His publications include investigations into intersectional representations of Black womanhood in his work on Chichi; reflections on the relationship between art and politics in The Aesthetics of Disaster in the Caribbean for MaMA; and explorations of storytelling traditions and collective memory in the 6ISLANDS zine.

In addition to his writing, he has delivered multiple keynote lectures, notably his presentation for Echa Kuenta at De Nieuwe Liefde, where he shared research on the poetics and politics of Caribbean orature.