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Altars of Poverty

June 14, 2015 by Mariamma Kambon

Altars of Poverty, my thesis show, grew out of my interest in a particular detail that I uncovered while researching the Black Power Revolution in Trinidad and Tobago. The movement seemed to have been transformed in scale and importance at the specific moment when the then small group of protesters – consisting mainly of university students and public transportation workers – entered a Roman Catholic cathedral in the heart of the nation’s capital. This famous cathedral was devoted to the […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: 1970, altars of poverty, Black Power, capitalism, catholic, church, colonialism, cornell university, death penalty, death row, Ithaca, Mariamma Kambon, martin carter, mass incarceration, MFA Thesis, New York, postcolonial, salt, sugar, Thesis, Tjaden Gallery, Trinidad and Tobago, white divinity

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The Personal and the Political by Attillah Springer

May 24, 2015 by Mariamma Kambon

    Mariamma Kambon takes delicate fragments to create brutal truths in her work, exploring in fine detail ideas of social justice, race and class, civil rights, and genetic memory and how these problems find specific manifestations within the prison industrial system. “Altars of Poverty” problematizes several notions of being and belonging. It claims a vocabulary for the denial of humanity. It visually describes a set of issues that we have not yet found a language for. And through her art, Kambon […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: altars of poverty, art and politics, Attillah Springer, caribbean, christianity and capitalism, installation, Mariamma Kambon, photography, postcolonial, salt, Trinidad and Tobago, wax

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