There are two literary references underlying the conceptual framework of the exhibition: the English poet John Donne (“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main”) and the Martinican writer Édouard Glissant, who in Le Discours Antillais describes Caribbean people as a population without a single-rooted identity but rather in continuous transformation. No man is an island presents works inspired by the essence of this land, which is the result of layers of different cultures, cohabitation of historical times, wounds, testimonies of a present that embraces history by merging with other languages, laws, and domains. Everything follows a continuous line, everything looks “different” although nothing is “foreign”.