Graham Fagen
Subtitle: complainte de l'esclave = The slave's lament
By: Louise Déry, Erica Moiah James
Contributors: Déry, Louise, 1955- author; James, Erica Moiah, author; Galerie de l'UQAM
Publisher: Galerie de l'UQAM
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Montréal, Québec
Language: fre
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9782920325685
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Exhibitions; Expositions; Installations (Art); Slave trade; Esclaves; Commerce; 20.30 history of art: general
Other titles: Slave's lament
Work titles: Works
Description: This catalog is being published in the wake of the exhibition 'Graham Fagen. The Slave's Lament' showed at Galerie de l'UQAM. It brings together works from the multidisciplinary artist Graham Fagen, who represented Scotland at the 2015 Venice Biennale, on the theme of slavery and Scottish involvement in the fate of African people deported to the Caribbean in the 18th century.The drawings, with the look of masks or portraits, the seascape photographs and the imposing video and music installation shown here explore the tensions and emotions brought about by colonialism and the African slave trade. Today considerable feeling has been mobilized with the aim of reconciliation and redemption for the economic servitude and cultural oppression of peoples -- whether aboriginal, the product of immigration or subject to current insidious forms of servitude. Fagen's questioning of nationality and identity, however, is based on a particularly pertinent critique of the cultural and social heritage. At the invitation of curator Louise Déry, specialist of the arts of the Caribbean Erica Moiah James signs an essay that contextualizes and questions the work of Fagen.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Galerie de l'UQAM, from February 24 to April 8, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references.

Parallel text in French and English.