ON VIEW: after a tempest

How can revolutionary desire, and the longing for an opaque pre-colonial past, reckon with the enduring realities of the neocolonial global order? And how do postcolonial elites repurpose symbols of resistance and pre-colonial heritage to maintain that order?

From 12 June until 25 June Felix is home to after a tempest (2026), a satirical short film installation by Alex Raúl. Inspired by writer and postcolonial thinker Aimé Césaire’s play ‘a tempest’ (1969) – which is in turn an adaptation of Shakespeare’s play ‘The Tempest’ (1623) – Raúl’s work takes us to a fictional island set on the evening of its 50th anniversary of independence, where the contradictions of the postcolonial condition come to the surface.

Alex Raúl is a composer and audiovisual artist from Amsterdam. His music fuses experimental R&B, electronica, and choir compositions. His audiovisual work examines themes of radical imagination, and critical history. Alex Raúl holds a master’s degree in law, and autonomously developed his practice as a composer, filmmaker and audiovisual artist.