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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 171–175.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Maxence Denis Small Axe Incorporated 2005 Kwa Bawon: A Video Installation
Maxence Denis
hrough a powerful Haitian Vodun symbol, “the keeper of the cemeteries,” the video
moves in between myth and reality, real and imaginary spaces to provoke introspection
T and self...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 134–154.
Published: 01 November 2011
... a cabinet meeting with three buckets of white powder showered over his
head, thus transforming himself into Bawon Samdi, Vodou divinity of death.4 It was in this last
guise, as the Bawon in black clothes and fedora, feigning his nasal accent and humorless
stare, that Duvalier terrorized the nation...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 119–143.
Published: 01 March 2012
... note 22 regarding this spelling of Vodoun), a lwa or loa refers to a spirit deity or god. Bawon
Samedi is the lwa associated with the dead, sexuality, and children. His domain is the cemetery, the symbolic crossroad
between life and death and the arena of the zombie (discussed later...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 94–104.
Published: 01 October 2008
... training; his contribution to the last Venice biennial was
a digitally animated sculpture entitled Kwa Bawon.
He uses contemporary dramas, urban violence, social exclusion, and migration as his raw
material. His recent work Kawotchou—a pile of around fifty old tires to which he...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 151–164.
Published: 01 October 2008
... • ISSN 0799-0537
152 | SX27 • On Reading Continental Shifts and Considering the Works of Edouard Duval Carrié
Vodouisant might say that this artist has Bawon Samdi as his met tèt and that his siblings are
the Gede offspring of Gran Brigit. Like the skeletal Bawon, with top hat, black...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 60–78.
Published: 01 July 2022
... Museum. 43 In response to the massive 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the show’s themes were reoriented to address disaster and grief as articulated through the figures of Bawon Samdi and Gede, the family of lwa who preside over sex, death, regeneration, and the crossroads. As with Sacred Arts, In Extremis...
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