4 juin - 30 juillet 2011 > Exposition KANAVAL - Vodou, politique et révolution dans les rue d’Haïti par Leah Gordon

Each year, Jacmel, a coastal town in Southern Haiti, holds pre-Lenten Mardi Gras Festivities. Troupes of 'performers' act out mythological and political tales in a whorish theatre of the absurd that courses the streets unshackled by traditional parade.

The characters and costume partially betray their roots in medieval European carnival, but the Jacmellien masquerades are also a fusion of clandestine Vodou, ancestral memory, political satire and personal revelation
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Photographs in the exhibition were taken in Haiti between 1995 and 2009, the year before the recent devastating earthquake in Haiti.

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A percentage of the profit from the book KANAVAL by Leah Gordon will go to Ciné Institute, teaching video skills in Jacmel and Brand Aid, rebuilfding the artisanal community in Jacmel.

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