“Sculpt” Cloak & Dagger Immersive Experience December 22
Loris Gréaud’s film Sculpt–a dark meditation on filmmaking, self-awareness, alchemy, the illumination of the spirit, and the development and decay and of society–caused a stir when in it screened earlier this year at the Los Angeles Museum of Art. Tickets for the daily screenings could only be obtained on the day of the showings, and…
Preview: Haitian Vodou Flags at La Luz de Jesus
This is one of the most exciting exhibitions this season–part of a perfectly conceived La Luz de Jesus Eastery show full of bright colors, skulls, religion, death and resurrection–a rare chance to view (and purchase!) Haitian vodou flags by the late master Antoine Oleyant. Oleyant, who died in 1992, moved the traditional sequined fabrics from…
Baron Samedi’s Rituals of Sex and Death Rule the Fowler Museum’s In Extremis: Death and Life in 21st Century Haitian Art
West African Diasporic Religions—especially santeria and that all-American version, hoodoo—are important aspects of my belief system, and have been for decades, spawned by my Southern roots and fascination with Haiti, where the syncretic religion Vodou (popularly known as “voodoo”), combination of West African faiths and Catholicism, was one of the driving forces in the island’s…