“Leah Gordon: Kanaval,” curated by Adeze Wilford, is a retrospective of Gordon’s work, spanning twenty years. This exhibition opened on the Museum of Up to date Artwork North Miami on November 9 and is on view till April 2023.
Description: Opening November 9, 2022 is Kanaval, a retrospective by photographer, filmmaker, curator, collector and author Leah Gordon that paperwork twenty years of Carnival in Haiti. Curated by MOCA Curator Adeze Wilford, the exhibition consists of a collection of black-and-white images taken on a mechanical medium format digicam.
The pictures are contextualized by a collection of oral histories associated by the leaders of varied troupes who oversee the design of the costume and generate the narratives surrounding Carnival. Their tales mirror the wealth of invention, fable, and self-generated mythology prevalent in a lot of Haitian tradition. The images will probably be accompanied by a brand new feature-length documentary on the carnival offering a kinetic counterpoint to the portraits.
[Shown above: Gran Manje (Fat Cats), 1997,40 x 40 in, C-type Lambda prints from scans from black and white medium format negatives.]
For extra data, see https://mocanomi.org/2022/11/kanaval-by-leah-gordon/