"The casino floors are devil red, patterned to keep you disoriented but in motion. Casinos are designed with certain principles in mind: no clocks, no sharp turns, oxygen-rich air pumping through the vents to keep you alert. Everything is calibrated to disarm the parts of the brain that make you stop and reconsider."
"But FUZE turns out to be something else entirely. The fair feels improbable: an event devoted to Caribbean art and dialogue, staged not in a museum or civic hall but inside a corporate resort on Nassau's Cable Beach. Roulette wheels hum just out of earshot as paintings and video works hang against temporary white walls. Tourists in swimwear wander past installations by some of the region's most compelling artists."
Access to the FUZE Art Fair requires a walk through hotel corridors and a casino designed to disorient with devil-red carpets, no clocks, and oxygen-rich air. The resort setting contrasts with expectations of commercial persuasion as the fair presents Caribbean paintings, video works, and installations amid tourists and resort noise. Now in its third edition, FUZE has become a regional cultural center of gravity. The fair announced that Lavar Munroe and the late John Beadle will represent the Bahamas at the 2025 Venice Biennale, marking only the country's second national pavilion and signaling organized global visibility for Bahamian art.
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