Leah Gordon

Leah Gordon is an artist and curator and has produced a body of work on the representational boundaries between art, religion, anthropology, post-colonialism and folk history. Her photographic work registers junctures between shared Haitian and British histories and cosmologies, with an emphasis on the links between the slave trade and the industrial revolution. She is the co-director of the Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Gordon’s film and photographic work has been exhibited internationally including the National Portrait Gallery, UK, Parc de la Villette, Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and will exhibit at the Dakar Biennale in 2014. Her photography book Kanaval: Vodou, Politics and Revolution on the Streets of Haiti was published in June 2010.