For Innocent, the “wake” of imperial afterlives in Haiti is at once (to borrow Christina Sharpe’s use of the term) the trail of a ship, a vigil for the dead, and a coming to consciousness.
The World, the Flesh, and the Devil extends the artist's research through a constellation of new commissions in fiber, moving image, and spatial intervention. Collectively, these objects trace the marks that colonialism and debt continue to embed in daily life, from extractive labor economies to environmental dispossession to the global structures that continue to dehumanize Haitian people today.
By design, their display seeks to close the artificial distance between the Caribbean, the Global North, and Scandinavia, asking viewers to reckon with their own place in these currents of global capital. Innocent's presentation, which treats artistic research as a practice of inhabiting sovereignty, positions Haiti as a place of origin: a living site of endurance, autonomy, and the will to demand a world beyond the colonial imagination.
This exhibition is curated by Adam Kleinman & Joe Rowley and is supported by Arts and Culture Norway.