The Ghetto Biennale ( Haitian Creole : Geto Byenal ) is an international contemporary arts exhibition held every two years in Port-au-Prince , Haiti during November and December.
6-658: The Ghetto Biennale was founded and is curated by Andre Eugène, an artist and a member of the local group of sculptors known as the Atis Rezistans, and Leah Gordon , artist and curator. The idea for the event started when Eugéne and other artists were unable to obtain US Visas for an exhibition in Florida, to which they had been invited to exhibit in. "In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, however, the Ghetto Biennial takes
12-596: A cold, hard look at what it means to be unseen and excluded from the highly networked, globalized, financially fluid mainstream art circuit. Founded in 2009 by André Eugène and Leah Gordon along with members of the collective Atis Rezistans, the event was created to address the fact that artists living and working in Haiti are often not able to travel—even if their work is included in a major exhibition abroad—often from lack of resources or flat-out visa refusal due to severe restrictions on Haitian passports." – The Observer Two of
18-473: The three-tiered racial classification system created by the 18th-century French colonialist Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry ; and the tailors of Port-au-Prince . She has also made photographic work about airport prayer spaces. She is a co-founder of Ghetto Biennale , a biannual international contemporary arts exhibition in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. All three films are compiled on
24-770: The Enclosure Acts and the creation of the British working-class. She has made various work in Haiti , such as the photographs of Kanaval , which was published in 2021 by Here Press and exhibited at the New Art Exchange , Nottingham in 2012; and the documentary film Kanaval: A People's History of Haiti in Six Chapters (2022, with Eddie Hutton-Mills). Gordon has made various photographic work in Haiti , such as about Haitian Carnival (Kanaval); Freemasons;
30-609: The city's poorest districts known as Lakou Cheri and Ghetto Leanne adjacent to the Grand Rue in central Port-au-Prince act as primary sites for the Ghetto Biennale. The biennale offers an opportunity for local artists – often without any training – to work side by side and collaborate with visiting international artists. The Ghetto Biennale has provided an alternative model to the larger and more predictably ' all star ' biennales that have become common in over 250 cities around
36-551: The world since the 90's. This article related to an art display, art museum or gallery is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Leah Gordon (photographer) Leah Gordon (born 1959) is a British photographer, artist, curator, writer and filmmaker. Her work explores the intervolved and intersectional histories of the Caribbean plantation system, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade,
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