
27 May –
1 Jul 2022
Exhibition: KAZAL – Narrating Haitian Memories
KAZAL is a photographic project that traces the memories of the dictatorship of François Duvalier in Haiti through the history of Kazal, a village north of Port-au-Prince in Haiti, where a major event in the contemporary history of the country was perpetrated in 1969 and subsequently obliterated from official history: the massacre of Kazal.
Artists:
Kolektif 2 Dimansyon: Edine Célestin, Fabienne Douce, Reginald Louissaint Jr., Mackenson Saint Felix, Moïse Pierre, Georges H. Rouzier
& Tessa Mars
Audio recording: Dumas Maçon
Curator: Nicola Lo Calzo
Opening: 25 May 2022, 17:00-19:00
Please register via Eventbrite to join!
Over the course of three years, six photographers from the Haitian collective Kolektif 2 Dimansyon (K2D) initiated a dialogue with the inhabitants of Kazal to investigate their memories of places and events. They encountered a troubled history which, to this day, has not yet been acknowledged.
Within the project, photography is the main form of narrating memory. At the same time, as testimony of the past, photography can be a source of historical knowledge; it reactivates the memory of a historical fact and invites reflection. This project functions as a basis to explore how photography remains, albeit, a fragmentary, partial, subjective, polysemous testimony.
The works show an interpretation of reality and trauma that can never be completely grasped in the context of Haiti and a post-Duvalier generation. For this presentation of K2D’s KAZAL project, the show features an additional perspective on memory narration from Haitian artist Tessa Mars. Mars explores the transformative strategies for survival, resistance, empowerment and healing that image-making and storytelling propose.
Location
Framer Framed
Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71
1093 KS, Amsterdam
Opening times
Tue – Sun, 12:00-18:00
Free Entree
Supported by
Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap; Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst; Stadsdeel Oost; Fondasyon Konesans Ak Libète (FOKAL).
- Press release-KAZAL (EN)
- Persbericht-KAZAL (NL)
Attachments
Photography / Caribbean / Contested Heritage /
Agenda

Photography Workshop: How to photograph a memory
By KAZAL photographers Georges Rouzier & Reginald Louissaint Jr. members of Kolektif 2 Dimansyon

Opening: KAZAL - Narrating Haitian Memories
With Georges H. Rouzier, Reginald Louissaint Jr., Tessa Mars & Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken
Network

Tessa Mars
Visual artist

Edine Célestin
Photographer

Fabienne Douce
Photographer

Georges Harry Rouzier
Photographer

Réginald Louissaint Junior
Photographer

Mackenson Saint Felix
Photographer

Moïse Pierre
Photographer

Dumas Maçon
Journalist
