Vodú and Surrealism 🌟 During André Breton’s visit to Haiti in 1945-46, the French surrealist leader sought to connect surrealist politics and automatist practices with the legacies of the Haitian Revolution and the ritual practices of Vodou possession. Recent developments in Haitian painting were central to his efforts, as can be seen from a comment…

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In Cuba, “el muewto” is truly many things. The literal translation “the dead” isn’t helping at all. It means so many things! Truly so many! Literally I would say, also (and just to begin with something) that “el muerto” is a kind of eight-sense, your personal spider-sense tingling…if related to feelings… It is Inquisi, a…

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