documenta fifteen: Bettenhausen
Part 5 of the photo tour through documenta fifteen. 18 June - 25 September 2022, Kassel, Germany. Artistic Direction: ruangrupa. 67 participants.
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(Resistance Artists, a group of majority-class artists working in the Grand Rue neighborhood of downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti.)
Ghetto Biennale
In December 2009 Atis Rezistans hosted the 1st Ghetto Biennale, which was conceived and devised by group member André Eugène and his partner, British artist and curator Leah Gordon. They invited Haitian and international fine artists, filmmakers, academics, photographers, musicians, architects, and writers, via a global open call, to come to the Grand Rue area of Port-Au-Prince to make work or witness the event in their neighborhood and this event has taken place every two years since then.
In St. Kunigundis Church they show series of sculptures, and a structure designed by British architect, and former Ghetto Biennale participant, Vivian Chan in collaboration with André Eugène and Leah Gordon. The shape of the ceiling floating structure mirrors the geometry and cacophony of the streets in the neighborhood behind Grand Rue in Port-au-Prince, and is inspired by the visual representation of place and space in the work of Haitian painter Préfète Duffaut.
(From the documenta website)
Venue: St. Kunigundis Church
© Photos: Haupt & Binder, Universes in Universe
Part 5 of the photo tour through documenta fifteen. 18 June - 25 September 2022, Kassel, Germany. Artistic Direction: ruangrupa. 67 participants.