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19/10/2012

Kafou

Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham

Haiti, Art and Vodou. The exhibition brings together some 200 works by 40 artists from the 1940s to today, and drawing from leading collections from Haiti, North America and Europe.


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Nottingham Contemporary is delighted to present a major exhibition of Haitian art inspired by Vodou. Bringing together some 200 works by 40 artists from the 1940s to today, and drawing from leading collections from Haiti, North America and Europe, Kafou will be one of the largest exhibitions of Haiti’s celebrated art ever held, and is unusual in presenting it in the context of a programme dedicated to international contemporary art. With few exceptions, the artists in the exhibition came from impoverished urban and rural backgrounds, and had minimal contact with the mainstream modern and contemporary art worlds. The extraordinary beauty and imaginative power of their work reflects the richness of Haitian culture and history while also contrasting with Haiti’s experience of, and reputation for, extreme poverty, political oppression and natural disaster. Kafou is curated by Alex Farquharson, Director of Nottingham Contemporary, and Leah Gordon, artist and curator of the Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince.

Vodou is a major source of imagery in Haitian art and Haitian art is often at its most visionary and inventive when referring to Vodou. It was this that attracted many of the Surrealists to Haitian art – André Breton, Maya Deren, Wifredo Lam and Michel Leiris, for example. Its influence gives rise to a kind of collective Surrealism. According to Haitian poet René Depestre “The whole of Haitian culture is imbued with a popular surrealism, manifested in the Vodou religion, in the plastic arts and in the different forms of being among the people of Haiti. In Haiti even the political history is marked by surrealism.” Around ninety percent of Haitians are thought to be Vodou believers.

Kafou: Haiti, Art and Vodou will trace the history of how Vodou has been represented through successive generations of Haitian art in all four of Nottingham Contemporary’s galleries, including the work of artists who were also Vodou priests (Houngans): Hector Hyppolitievers.

For more information please see the attached press release or contact Jenny McVean at Sutton PR: jenny@suttonpr.com

Opening 20 october

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