ON VIEW: after a tempest
The installation is on view in the lounge of Felix and can be visited during café opening hours on 12, 13, and 14 June.
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.