The artist presents and comments on his work Vertières I II III, which took part in the exhibition Southern Panoramas | Selected Artists as part of the 19th Festival. The Vertières battle was the last battle before Napoleon’s army withdrew from Haiti, which became the first independent nation in Latin America and the Caribbean. Botkay presents three filmic incursions into the Haitian historic, social and political process. Exploring aspects such as discipline/control, nature/tenderness and ruin/resistance, the piece investigates the levels of domestication and enslavement resultant from the post-colonial processes that marked the history of the country.
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