Photographs of Surinamese-Creole women going to the market, a street after heavy rainfall, a Javanese orchestra, a banana plantation, a pair of sandals. Painted portraits of people, spirits, and intricate paper butterflies. The Surinamese School exhibition spans multiple geographies and realities, wherein the everyday meanders through and interrupts the dominant Dutch colonial framing of the Surinamese arts. How do we read Afro and Asian aesthetics outside of a Western framework? How could Surinamese art move away from the Dutch art historical canon and archive? This collection of works shows a set of spatial and temporal dimensions that fall outside of the linear scope of Western art. The title of the exhibition refers to multiple forms of art education, knowledge production between artists, and the founding of independent art schools. How is the idea of ‘schooling’ expanded in the exhibition? How does it radically transform pedagogy? I am pulled by the multiple registers through which the everyday and quotidian appear in the exhibition. Here we get to dwell with diasporic poetics. We get to pay attention to rupture, visibility, and experimentation. We get to configure our relationship to the worlds that exist within the Surinamese School.