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Creole Portraits II: A Collection of Scarce & Singular Creole
Portrait Heads to perpetuate the memory of the women of Egypt estate in Jamaica
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2007, installation murale au musée de Brooklyn, New York, avec 10 lithographies sur mylar, vinyle sur mur, 274 x 457 cm.
(2008). By inserting the voices / images of Creole women that have been
omitted from history into museum spaces such as this, I open up a space for
an alternative reading of history.
Another portrait series,
Creole Portraits III
(2009-10), depicts exotic botanical
specimens, used secretly as abortifacients, woven into the slave collars used
to punish slave women accused of this heinous crime. The companion video
installation
Behind closed doors…
(2010) includes the voices of Creole women
(mistress and slaves) emotionally revealing their plight.
CGC
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How does your work deal with racial and identity issues?
JG
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My work probes female Creole identity from a postcolonial feminist
perspective. By unraveling the construction of the (white) Creole woman as
culturally inferior “Other”, I aim to show that contrary to assumed stereotypes,
through colonialism and patriarchy the lives of all Creole women (free and
enslaved) have been shaped by “mastership”. A “shared” (though unequal)
history between black and white Creole women is revealed.