Felisha Carénage uses painting, textiles and performance to explore the ethics of empire as played out in the carnivalesque of her own biography. Architectural, legal and literary tropes guide this work.

Working with grassroots initiatives and decolonial feminist organizations in Europe and the Caribbean while navigating gendered, racialised citizenship, her artmaking is a créole, community-oriented method of both resistance and civic engagement. By appropriating elided histories, contemporary discomforts and the destitution of the future, she advocates for obscurity, humour, rage and radical grief.

Carénage’s projects have been presented at MARKK and the Museum of Applied Arts in Hamburg, daadgalerie, Dekoloniale and SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin. Recently commissioned performances will be shown at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin and Van Abbe Museum in the Netherlands.

After 5 years as an associate lecturer, she is on hiatus from teaching until 2026. A citizen of Trinidad & Tobago, Carénage is currently resident in London and Berlin as a participant in BPA// Berlin program for artists