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Sokari Ekine

Photographer, Visual Artist
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Spirit Desire Vodou Shorts: 1 - Spirit Practice
Location: Richmond VA
Nationality: Nigerian British
Biography: Sokari Ekine, Photography Sokari Ekine is a Nigerian Black British genderqueer feminist  who has lived and worked in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States. Their work has been exhibited in such venues as the 4th Biennale of... MORE
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Spirit Desire Vodou Shorts: 1 - Spirit Practice
Copyright Sokari Ekine 2024
Date of Work Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Updated Sep 2019
Location Haiti
Topics African Diaspora, Faith, Haiti, Health/Healing, Photography, Racism, Spirituality, Video, Vodou
“SPIRIT DESIRE: - RESISTANCE, IMAGINATION & SACRED MEMORIES IN HAITIAN VODOUN”
“Spirit Desire” is a celebration of Haitian Vodoun as a site of resistance, decolonization, and community. The series which includes images of everyday living, ritual, and ceremony, aims to shift the gaze from representations that depict Vodoun as negative and present a decolonizing narrative: one in which Vodouisants engage with a consciousness and spirituality that celebrates our humanity rather than focusing on a set of prescribed normative identities.
Exploring the dance, song, possession, drumming, aesthetics, and ritual of Vodoun through photography allows me to express the freedom of an unbound imagination that recognizes the power of the self and the spirit within us as a multidimensional force which stretches far into the past and into the future.

SOKARI EKINE
Sokari Ekine is a Nigerian British documentary photographer, visual scholar, and writer based in Port-au-Prince Haiti and New Orleans, US.
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