Mar 4-London-Leah Gordon & Andre Eugène-Haiti Grand Rue Screening & Appeal
Posted: March 3rd, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Actions & Activism, Events-Recommended |
Haiti Disaster Appeal
6.30-9pm, Thursday 4 March 2010
In support of the ongoing disaster appeal for Haiti, Four Corners
Gallery is pleased to feature a screening of:
‘Atis-Rezistans: The Sculptors of Grand Rue, 34mins’.
A drinks reception will follow in the company of artists Andre
Eugène and Leah Gordon.
Andre Eugène is the progenitor of the Grand Rue artist
movement in downtown Port au Prince. He fuses the fetish effigy
with an apocalyptic MTV futuristic vision. Much of his work is
figurative using human skulls for heads and imbued with a bold
sense of irony, sexuality and humour.
British photographer and filmmaker Leah Gordon first visited
Haiti in 1991 and has built an extraordinary body of work over
nineteen years. Her work does not merely articulate nostalgia for
an authentic popular culture but positively celebrates the vivid
potential of contemporary communal creativity in Haiti.
To reserve places please email: dave@fourcornersfilm.co.uk
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