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Alice Smeets, Haiti Tarot.
Alice Smeets’s series of photographs recreating Tarot cards is perhaps one of the best series of photographic works I have ever seen.
With the help of the Haitian Artist Corps, Atis Rezistans, Alice recreated the entire Rider Waite Tarot Deck, an early 20th century version of the mysterious cards that have long been used to tell ones fortunes. The subject in each of her photographs are Haitian artists and their artwork is used as decoration or backdrops, resulting in a very deeply personal portrait while still portraying the original tarot cards.
Alice entitled this series of photographs “Ghetto Tarot” and explains that the term “Ghetto” was embraced by the Atis Rezistans:
“Ghetto [is used to] free themselves of its depreciating undertone and turn it into something beautiful. This undertaking of the Haitians made me realize that it lies only within us to assign value or judgment towards a tangible or intangible thing, which creates a positive or negative emotion. If we realize that its a choice whether we look at destruction and see despair or to regard it as the start of something new, we can change the meaning of every word, action and sentiment.”
Continue below to see even more from this absolutely incredible series:
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from SUPERSONIC ARTI love this show and don’t want it to end!
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A pleurant (French) or “weeper” (in English) was a statue that was meant to mourn eternally at the grave of a loved one.
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Klg_Dachaufstockung by Lakonis Architekten
A contemporary apartment atop a historical building in Vienna.
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from 969yearsHenry Lewis & Lango Olievera - Neon Knights
These two phenomenal artists currently have a show up at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. I very much suggest you check it out if you get a chance, it’s up until March 31st.
Neither of the two guys realize (how would they?) but they’re both the reason I started this blog. I was visiting San Francisco several years back and my buddy wanted to get tattooed at Skull & Sword. Lango tattooed him and as I sat there looking at the art on the walls (like paintings by Shawn Barber) listening to Henry Lewis tell stories and watching Grime in the front room from afar I felt a very strong need to share art with everyone possible. So when I returned from SF to Mississippi I went about making Supersonic Electronic a full time art blog. So thanks Lango and Henry, ya’lls kindness at Skull & Sword that day was really meaningful to me.
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Valente Celle Tomb, 1893, The Staglieno Cemetery, Genoa - Italy
Sculptor: Giulio Monteverde (Bistagno, Alessandria, 1837 - Roma 1917)
The funeral monument called “Eternal Drama” represents a real Dans macabre, the futile attempt of life to escape the inevitable embrace of death. The sculptor Giulio Monteverde underlines, in this sculpture, the contrast between the sensuality of the beautiful young woman who personifies Life (caught in the moment in which , wearied by the vain struggle, she is about to surrender herself to the terrible spectre who has chosen her as his prey) and the rigid impassiveness of Death which seizes her. http://grabschonheiten.diary.ru/p81440998.htm?oam
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