SACRED & PROFANE LOVE MACHINES

October 23, -
Speaker(s): Leah Gordon
SACRED & PROFANE LOVE MACHINES
An exhibition of works by Leah Gordon
Curated by Pedro Lasch

On view: October 20th - December 11th, 2022
Sunday October 23rd, 2-4pm | Reception & Conversation with the Artist

London-based artist Leah Gordon is internationally renowned for her photographs and publications on Haiti, her decades long collaboration with the group Atis Rezistans, and her role as co-founder of Gheto Biennale in Port-Au-Prince. Of equal importance are her deep explorations of class politics, anarchist thought, architecture, and the paradoxical relationship between magic and modernity. Sacred & Profane Love Machines is dedicated to these latter concerns, connecting two distinct bodies of work entitled Reciprocity Failure and Duvalierville / The Black Dog of Civic Space, both exhibited for the first time in the United States. Alongside these projects we are pleased to exhibit a work in progress, Monument to the Vanquished, exploring the legacy of dispossession and historical relevance of the Enclosures Act. This work currently comprises of intricately hand-tinted photographs which invoke a sense of the uncanny and speak to a more Pagan and magical relationship to the land.

Presented by Power Plant Gallery and FHI Social Practice Lab.  Co-sponsored by the Duke AAHVS Visiting Artists Series, Dean of Humanities, and Durham Click Festival. Pedro Lasch is a Research Professor of Art, Art, History & Visual Studies at Duke University.
Sponsor

American Tobacco Campus - Power Plant

Co-Sponsor(s)

Art, Art History & Visual Studies; Center for Documentary Studies (CDS); Cinematic Arts; Dean of Humanities; Duke Arts; Forum for Scholars and Publics; Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI); Humanities Labs@FHI; Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts (MFAEDA)