Friday 2 May 2014

DFSA Lecturer, Leah Gordon - Caste | Cast


http://housefestival.org/?location_id=638

DFSA Lecturer, Leah Gordon takes her photography project, the Caste Portraits, as her starting point, to explore shared Haitian and British histories and cosmologies in the dining room and library of The Regency Town House.
Photographs investigating the practice of grading skin colour in eighteenth century Haiti are juxtaposed with a film of a journey along the Manchester Ship Canal. Travelling between a city born of the industrial revolution – Manchester - and another built upon the slave trade – Liverpool, Gordon highlights the shared economic and political histories of Britain and Haiti.
Two other films depict machinery manufactured in Liverpool in 1818 that now lies ruined and overgrown in a former plantation in Haiti, and the other of Haiti’s Declaration of Independence stored in the National Archives at Kew. These historical reflections sit alongside a prophetic photographic reconstruction of William Blake’s illustration of ‘Europe Supported by Africa and the Americas’.


The Regency Town House
13 Brunswick Square, Brighton BN3 1EH
Sat 3- Sun 25 May
Opening times: Thursdays – Sundays
12.00 – 6.00
Entry: Free

1 comment:

  1. So sad I couldn't make it to the Private View tonight due to Y2 assessments. Discussed the development of the work with Leah last week and very eager to see the outcome.

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