Artist : Leah Gordon
Title : Hooden Horse of Kent (Invictus of Hythe)
Medium : c-type lambda print from scan of black & white medium format analogue negative
Dimensions : 100 x 100 cm



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Leah Gordon is an artist, film maker curator, and writer born in Ellesmere Port between Liverpool and Manchester. Her work explores the intervolved and intersectional histories of the Caribbean plantation system, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, the Enclosure Acts and the creation of the British working-class and could be said to be about joining dots of meaning. Gordon’s photographs represent an exchange as well as encounter: a paradox as well as a power dynamic. At once anonymous and assertive, her subjects connect with the lens while maintaining their disguise’s remove. 

Leah Gordon’s film and photographic work has been exhibited internationally including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; the Dak’art Biennale; the National Portrait Gallery, UK; Parc de la Villette, Paris and NSU Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale. Her photography book ‘Kanaval: Vodou, Politics and Revolution on the Streets of Haiti’ was published in June 2010 and she co-directed the documentary film ‘Kanaval: A People’s History of Haiti in Six Chapters’ currently on BBC iPlayer. She is the co-director of the Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; was a curator for the Haitian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale; was the co-curator of ‘Kafou: Haiti, History & Art’ at Nottingham Contemporary, UK; on the curatorial team for ‘In Extremis: Death and Life in 21st Century Haitian Art’ at the Fowler Museum, UCLA and in 2018 was the co-curator, with Edouard Duval-Carrie, for PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince. In 2015 Leah Gordon was the recipient of the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean.