The Earth, the Fire, the Water, and the Winds: For a Museum of Errantry with Édouard Glissant

By Édouard Glissant

The first publication dedicated to Glissant's art collection and project for a museum of memory-in-transit

Published with Instituto Tomie Ohtake .

Titled after douard Glissant's (1928-2011) anthology, La Terre, le feu, l'eau et les vents (2010), this publication offers a polyphonic extension of the writer's foundational thinking on art to museology, philosophy and poetry. The Museum of Errantry reflects Glissant's conception of the museum itself as an archipelago--a space open to ruptures, disappearances, and reinventions without forced synthesis. The Earth, the Fire, the Water, and the Winds features detailed artist entries, archival fragments and visual documents to illuminate the many relational, diasporic, migratory trajectories that inform Glissant's personal art collection and meditations. The volume also features never-before-published excerpts from L'Ab c daire d' douard Glissant (2008), a long-form recorded dialogue between the author and acclaimed Martinican writer Patrick Chamoiseau, as well as a facsimile of Notebook of a Journey on the Nile (1988), a poetic-philosophical travelog composed during a felucca trip through Egypt.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6589342598
• ISBN13: 9786589342595
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Cara
• Length: 240 Pages