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Leah Gordon is a photographer, film-maker and curator who has, in recent years, produced a considerable body of work on the representational boundaries between art, religion, anthropology, colonialism and folk history.
In 2006 she commissioned the Grand Rue Sculptors from Haiti to make 'Freedom Sculpture', a permanent exhibit for the International Museum of Slavery in Liverpool and in 2008 she completed the film, 'Atis-Rezistans: the Sculptors of Grand Rue'.
Continuing her relationship with the Grand Rue artists, Gordon organised and co-curated the 1st Ghetto Biennale in December 2009 and the 2nd Ghetto Biennale in 2011. She has been involved in a range of projects as film-maker, photographer or curator, including films documenting experiences of homophobia in London, colonial legacy and the museum in Maputo, Mozambique, and links between the Slave Trade and the River Thames; her photography book 'Kanaval: Vodou, Politics and Revolution on the Streets of Haiti' was published in June 2010.
Leah Gordon was the adjunct curator for the first Haitian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, 2010. She is on the curatorial team for 'In Extremis' 2012 at the Fowler Museum. UCLA, Los Angeles and is co-curating a major exhibition of Haitian art to be shown at the Nottingham Contemporary, UK in 2012. Leah Gordon's photography is represented by Riflemaker Gallery.
