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for La Vaughn Belle
La Vaughn Belle
Trinidad and Tobago, 1974
Filmed in several different homes in Havana, this project came out of an interest in the
aesthetics of Caribbean interior décor and in particular in the commonly featured coffee
table or “mesita de sala”. I found that the objects and figurines collected on the tables
revealed a peculiar discourse between the public and private. I saw these “decorative
altars” as another type of engagement with the sacred, the intimate and the ritual. As
simultaneous public and private spaces they are full of the possibility for transformation
and exchange. Through the animation of these static objects, I try to show how that
possibility could be achieved.
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