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The Artwork of Clara Morera: Afro-Cuban Religious Legacy with a Twist

Ana Belén Martín Sevillano
Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 99–109.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3844271
Published: 01 March 2017
...Ana Belén Martín Sevillano This essay offers an account of Clara Morera's artistic course, considering the context and quality of her artwork. Morera has been one of the first female Cuban visual artists to formulate a gendered discourse in the plastic arts by making use of the symbolic...
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The Archive and the Repertoire in Roshini Kempadoo's Ghosting

Marta Fernández Campa
Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 110–125.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3844283
Published: 01 March 2017
...Marta Fernández Campa This essay highlights the role of archives, archival research, and integration of archival records in contemporary Caribbean visual artwork that evokes and reimagines unevenly recorded historical processes/moments. It also suggests the defining role of this approach...
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Albums of Inclusion: The Photographic Poetics of Caribbean Chinese Visual Kinship

Tao Leigh Goffe
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 35–56.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985666
Published: 01 July 2018
...Tao Leigh Goffe This essay focuses on artwork that centers family photographs and home movies as a point of departure to trouble the conventional family album in order to narrate a story about Caribbean Chinese kinship. In the art examined, personal visual archives are used to respond to the lacuna...
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The Clandestine Philosophy of Graffiti in Port-au-Prince

Guillermina De Ferrari
Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 63–88.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9583418
Published: 01 November 2021
.... It analyzes “Le poème tué” graffiti by young Haitian poet Ricardo Boucher, along with murals by Jerry (Jerry Rosembert Moïse) and Francisco Silva, political graffiti about the PetroCaribe corruption scandal, and the writing and artwork on tap-tap buses, as emergent affects and ideologies about the art...
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Making History Visible: Caribbean Artist Josef Nassy’s Visual Diary of Nazi Internment

Sarah Phillips Casteel
Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 28–46.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8912768
Published: 01 March 2021
...Sarah Phillips Casteel While interned by the Nazis in Belgium and Bavaria during World War II, the little-known Surinamese artist Josef Nassy (1904–76) created a series of paintings and drawings documenting his experiences and those of other black prisoners. Nassy’s artworks uniquely register...
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Expectations of Catastrophe: Mario Benjamin, Commissions, and Countercontext

Wendy Asquith
Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 227–243.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2379027
Published: 01 November 2013
... the dominant interpretive discourse the alternative reference points of the artist, who can be seen intervening in the space of the commissioned artwork to confront viewers' expectations about the relationships linking Haiti, art, and catastrophe. For instance, the panel titled “Trading Disaster...
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Art History and the Dialogics of Diaspora

Kobena Mercer
Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 213–227.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1665632
Published: 01 July 2012
... Chambers and Huey Copeland on his edited series Annotating Art's Histories. Examining interactions among artists, artworks, and artworlds as a dialogical circuit facilitates close attention to art's aesthetic agency without the pitfalls of biographical reduction to identity or sociological reduction...
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Writing the Feminine: The Representation of Women in Contemporary Dominican Visual Art

Elena Valdez
Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 126–140.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3844295
Published: 01 March 2017
... and media used in their art, the artists have systematically challenged expectations of the role of women in the arts and in society as a whole. Their artwork explores the devastating impact on women of restricted gender roles and new forms of slavery imposed by patriarchal society, such as forced...
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Imaging historical traces: Virtual Exiles project [2000]: [ http://www.mediascot.org/exiles/ve/index.html ]

Roshini Kempadoo
Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 235–241.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-8-1-235
Published: 01 March 2004
...Roshini Kempadoo Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Imaging historical traces: Virtual Exiles project [2000] [httpwww.mediascot.org/exiles/ve/index.html] Roshini Kempadoo Virtual Exiles is a digital print and Internet artwork, based on material from Guyana I collected and created between...
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Rethinking the “Transnational” Caribbean Curatorial: Politics of Space in “Caribe insular: Exclusión, fragmentación y paraíso”

Carlos Garrido Castellano
Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 1–19.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3726818
Published: 01 November 2016
...” in group exhibitions and the subordination of the aesthetic dimension of the artworks in favor of a direct and immediate identification of their content through their provenance are also not fully addressed. 11 Finally, other similarities can be drawn to the process of overlooking the complex...
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Timings, Canon, and Art History

Roshini Kempadoo
Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 167–176.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3139298
Published: 01 July 2015
... through practices of enunciation and alluding to the “situated” position from which we speak or write. This has profound implications for the temporal frame through which we are encouraged to conceive of artworks or write about them. The difficulty in both revealing, providing knowledge of, and evoking...
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Amendments: Digital Griots as Traces of Resistance

Roshini Kempadoo
Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 181–191.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2008-014
Published: 01 March 2009
..., and in the future—in the reimagined places of Trinidad, London, and elsewhere. The media artwork Amendments is a series of imagined narratives drawn from contemporary Caribbean and British landscape photographs, sound recordings, and materials from the archives. It raises questions and creates...
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A Complex Contemporaneity: Caribbean Visual Relations

Michelle Stephens
Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 177–184.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3139310
Published: 01 July 2015
..., identifies a central problem. Historicizing claims justifying a place in the canon become linked to the linguistic turn such that our tendency, even in Caribbean studies as a form of cultural studies, is to see the visual artwork simply as a sign. What such approaches miss is precisely a return to the thing...
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Inside and Outside the Exhibition Space: The Poetics and Politics of Colectivo Quintapata

Carlos Garrido Castellano, Magdalena Lopez
Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 31–52.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8749758
Published: 01 November 2020
... an onlooker contemplating an artwork already establishes a contract, an agreement, thus conditioning the final result and introducing an element of negotiation into the process of artistic creation. Collaboration, on the other hand, has become a recognizable global trend within contemporary art...
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Contributors

Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 197–200.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3139334
Published: 01 July 2015
... Children . J ean -U lrick D ésert is a Berlin-based visual artist born in Haiti. His artworks vary in scale and medium. Well known for his “Negerhosen2000” and his poetic “Goddess” projects, his practice visualizes “conspicuous invisibility.” He has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, the Walker Art...
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Sympathetic Graffiti in Haiti: Jerry's Murals as a Scene of Pedagogical Curiosity

Chelsey L. Kivland
Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 22–43.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4156750
Published: 01 July 2017
... is clear in the social subjects Jerry chooses for his artwork. But it also highlights the particular mode of political persuasion employed across subjects. Put differently, I suggest that the phrase “in parentheses” reflects Jerry's ethico-political commitment to a kind of rhetorical sleight-of-hand common...
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Contemporary Art as Cultural Product in the Context of Haiti

Barbara Prézeau-Stephenson
Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 94–104.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-12-3_27-94
Published: 01 October 2008
... galleries, most of which are based in Pétionville (a town where much of the country’s wealth is concentrated). This network is linked to four galleries in the United States, two galleries in France, and one in Canada. Furthermore, a large part of the marketing of Haitian artworks is organized by non...
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Behind the Orange Door

Gabrielle Civil, Rosamond S. King
Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 89–98.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3844259
Published: 01 March 2017
... collaborated as diasporic black Caribbean women artists. We have worked together on specific artworks and community arts–based projects. More broadly, we have engaged each other's work, sharing performance bills, organizing events, and, most important, raising key questions and offering critical feedback...
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Come and Gone

Stephen Best
Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 186–204.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3341777
Published: 01 November 2015
...” art: either the attempt to explicate the artwork's meaning consists in restating what it represents , to explain it historically through recourse to its moment of production, or to restore its fragments to the context from which they were taken. I will make the case for black ascesis...
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Timed Out: Pathways and Pitfalls for Art History and Caribbean Studies

Leon Wainwright
Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 185–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3139322
Published: 01 July 2015
... as there have always been flows of people across this transnational geography, there have been movements of artworks and the ideas about them. It is often assumed that art of the Caribbean is somehow lagging behind the leading or cutting edge of art, that art practices and debates around the Caribbean field...
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