Jelsen Lee Innocent, I Know You Are, But What Am I (over the shoulder), 2025. Collage. Photo: Jelsen Lee Innocent
Innocent's summer exhibition at Kunsthall Trondheim, The World, the Flesh, and the Devil, traces how colonialism and debt continue to shape the Haitian lived experience. Extending that spirit outward, the institution takes to the street for a block party featuring DJ sets, film screenings, and discursive programs as well as catering by Haitian-American chef John Belizaire, of John B’s BBQ Creole and Caribbean Food in Hamar, Norway. As the exhibition positions Haiti as a living site of endurance and sovereignty, the block party collapses the distance between the gallery, the neighborhood, and the global currents the work addresses.