The screenprints depict pages from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s 1806 book Phenomenology of the Spirit presented alongside pages from news reports about the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) printed by Hamburg’s Minerva newspaper, read by Hegel while he worked on the book. Overlaying the text, images of symbols from Vodoun, the driving force behind the Haitian Revolution, found in the streets and museums of Benin, and the image of Toussaint L’Ouverture, a leading revolutionary in Haiti, taken from the archives of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY (USA).
The screenprints depict pages from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s 1806 book Phenomenology of the Spirit presented alongside pages from news reports about the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) printed by Hamburg’s Minerva newspaper, read by Hegel while he worked on the book. Overlaying the text, images of symbols from Vodoun, the driving force behind the Haitian Revolution, found in the streets and museums of Benin, and the image of Toussaint L’Ouverture, a leading revolutionary in Haiti, taken from the archives of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY (USA).