From raw to refined: Edouard Duval-Carrié’s "Sugar Conventions" (2013)

Lesley Wolff

doi:10.1080/17528631.2019.1611322

From raw to refined: Edouard Duval-Carrié’s "Sugar Conventions" (2013)

Lesley Wolff

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Abstract

This article argues that "Sugar Conventions" (2013), an unstudied, mixed media work by the Haitian-born artist Edouard Duval- Carrié, challenges established notions of Eurocentric visuality to locate creolization as a process entangled with, though historically veiled through, canonical Western image production. By destabilizing and denaturalizing Eurocentric conceptions of originality, ‘whiteness,’ and colonialism, "Sugar Conventions" negotiates the consequences of sugar cultivation and its product, ultimately raising new questions about the complicity of images in producing and obscuring colonial dynamics. To consider the myriad ways in which "Sugar Conventions" medially and figuratively elevates the physical, moral, and material costs of sugar, this article looks to the three layers, rendered on Plexiglas, that together comprise the work. This article suggests that each layer – background, middle ground, and foreground – negotiates visual,<

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	355-374
Journal	African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/17528631.2019.1611322
State	Published - Aug 2019

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