Chris Cyrille-Isaac

Chris Cyrille-Isaac is a poet, writer, and independent exhibition storyteller. He graduated from the faculty of Art, Philosophy and Aesthetics at Paris 8 University and has worked for several French magazines. He works on anti-colonial and Caribbean literatures through thinkers and poets such as Sylvia Wynter, Maryse Condé, Dany-Bebel Gisler, Aimé Césaire, and Édouard Glissant. Laureate of the 2022 Cnap Curatorial Research Grant, and the 2023 Adiaf Emergent Grant he is working on a new understanding of archives from orality and the Antillean context. He is currently pursuing his curatorial, philosophical, and poetic project Mangrovité. He currently lives and works in Guadeloupe and France.