Kingdom of This World Reimagined
This exhibition presented a selection of contemporary work inspired by Alejo Carpentier’s historical novel, The Kingdom of This World, which recounts the Haitian Revolution and its profound impact on the emergent nation, all through a magical realism lens of authentic voodoo folklore. On the occasion of the book’s seventieth anniversary, an international cohort of artists, each with ties to the Caribbean, responded to Carpentier’s storytelling visually. This exhibition was developed by Edouard Duval-Carrié in collaboration with Lesley Wolff in partnership with the Little Haiti Cultural Center.
The identity of the show was largely already decided, so my role was to adapt this identity with new graphics for its next venue within the Pensacola Museum of Art (PMA). I created a title wall, banner, and illustrated a single-color map of Haiti with locations relevant to the book’s story and an accompanying timeline to be printed large-scale in vinyl.
