Leah Gordon – Kanaval Image-Text linearity makes way for polymorphism

linearity makes way for polymorphism

Then you arrive in Summerland

à travers l’oeuvre de Gisèle Vienne

as a dialogue on community and belonging

Leah Gordon – Kanaval Image-Text linearity makes way for polymorphismLeagues away from the sequinned, sanitised, corporate sponsored carnivals found elsewhere in the Americas, the Madigra troupes of the Haitian port town of Jacmel enact and subvert myth, legends and the nations own histories, their improvisational costumes and surreal narratives a Vodou charged blend of folk memory, political satire and personal revelation. Here the Zl Maturin, satin clad devils in papier mch masks, hinged wooden wings clapping on