{"id":59004,"date":"2022-02-16T23:10:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T23:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/events\/dust-specks-sea-contemporary-sculpture-french-caribbean-haiti\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T07:40:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T07:40:59","slug":"dust-specks-sea-contemporary-sculpture-french-caribbean-haiti","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/dust-specks-sea-contemporary-sculpture-french-caribbean-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Dust Specks on the Sea: Contemporary Sculpture from the French Caribbean &#038; Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The exhibit features a series of sculptures, which speak to a variety of positioning regarding postcolonialism in these regions and interact with one another. The name of the exhibition, \u201cDust Specks on the Sea,\u201d derives from a 1964 quote from by President Charles de Gaulle, when he saw to an aerial view of the French Caribbean islands from an airplane and called it a mystery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1170\" height=\"928\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/mt.peele_1170_928_s.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/mt.peele_1170_928_s.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/mt.peele_1170_928_s-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/mt.peele_1170_928_s-1024x812.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/mt.peele_1170_928_s-768x609.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<figcaption>\n\t\t\t<p>Dust Specks on the Sea, Mount Pel\u00e9e photo courtesy of 516arts.org<\/p>\n\t\t<\/figcaption>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The 1902 volcanic eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed Saint-Pierre in Martinique within minutes. This natural catastrophe produced a series of images that would later be used when calling the eruption the \u201cworst volcanic disaster of the early 20th century.\u201d These images display a large cloud of dust just above Caribbean waters and add a profoundness to President de Gaulle\u2019s statement about\u00a0the French Caribbean islands and the variety of perspectives that could be had regarding France\u2019s history as a powerful colonizing force in the Caribbean.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cDust Specks on the Sea\u201d highlights the power of art and its ability to ensure that the French Caribbean is not solely defined by its beauty or history, but rather through the art of the exhibition which speaks for itself in a multi-faceted fashion of understanding these regions. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Hunter East Harlem Gallery at Hunter College in New York generated the exhibition and is dedicated to creating projects that work with complex circumstances of human society and use art as a\u00a0voice of creativity to visual dialogue about how art has the potential to be a powerful tool for personal and political expression. \u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":59002,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[236,218],"app_city_tax":[225],"app_event_type":[242],"class_list":["post-59004","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-museums","app_discipline-visual-arts","app_city_tax-sf","app_event_type-exhibition"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dust Specks on the Sea: Contemporary Sculpture from the French Caribbean &amp; Haiti - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/dust-specks-sea-contemporary-sculpture-french-caribbean-haiti\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dust Specks on the Sea: Contemporary Sculpture from the French Caribbean &amp; Haiti - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The exhibit features a series of sculptures, which speak to a variety of positioning regarding postcolonialism in these regions and interact with one another. 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