Exhibition
Art + Revolution In Haiti
23 Sep 2018 – 18 Nov 2018
The Gallery of Everything
London, United Kingdom
-
FROM DIVINE HORSEMEN: THE LIVING GODS OF HAITI, MAYA DEREN, 1985
Screening
Film Screening + Q&A // Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods Of Haiti, Maya Deren
27 Oct 2018
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 4 Chiltern Street
- London
England - W1U 7PS
- United Kingdom
Event map
About
WHAT: Film screening of DIVINE HORSEMEN: THE LIVING GODS OF HAITI, Maya Deren (c 1947/54)
WHEN: Saturday 27th October // 5 - 7pm [Please arrive by 4:30pm]
WHERE: 4 Chiltern Street, London W1
ART + REVOLUTION IN HAITI is a survey of the Haitian arts movement which emerged on the island the 1940s and was feted by Andre Breton, Maya Deren, and others.
The exhibition takes place at The Gallery of Everything, a Central London commercial space dedicated to art-makers working beyond the cultural mainstream.
ART + REVOLUTION IN HAITI includes several film screenings, which will take place over the course of the show.
The first screening will be DIVINE HORSEMEN: THE LIVING GODS OF HAITI by pioneering avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, and will be followed by a Q&A.
ABOUT THE FILM
DIVINE HORSEMEN: THE LIVING GODS OF HAITI (c 1947/54) is a viscerally insightful collation of early black and white footage shot by the experimental filmmaker and documentarian, Maya Deren (1917-1961). This posthumous film brings together Deren’s early recordings on her travels to Haiti from 1947 to 1954, documenting dance, possession and ceremonial practice in Haitian Vodou.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
"When the anthropologist arrives, the gods depart." So declares, I am told, a Haitian proverb. Maya Deren, on the other hand, was an artist: therein, the secret of her ability to recognize‚ facts of the mind when presented through the fictions of a mythology. Her avant-garde films, composed before her first trip to Haiti, had already testified to her understanding of the pictorial script of dream, vision, and hallucination. (...) She was open, willingly and respectfully, to the message of the speechless deep, which is, indeed, the wellspring of the "mystres". And so it was that when I first met her, just following her plunge into what she has named “The White Darkness” she was in a state of high exaltation."
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987).
THE GALLERY OF EVERYTHING
4 CHILTERN ST, LONDON W1
WWW.GALLEVERY.COM
