Cannes Brûlèes (which this installation is named after) can be described as a multimedia symbolic ceremony in which its psychological messages take various forms and are manifested in a variety of artistic behaviours – music -making, poetics, vernacular languages, dramatics, dance, and other acrobatic gestures.

Exploring the impact of ritual, Garneau mines his own Caribbean heritage to immerse his audience in the complex history of emancipation and masquerade within Trinidad and Tobago.

He works with raw and lightly processed materials, to cultivate a visual language steeped in burlesque, handicraft, and iconoclasm to pay homage to the ingenuity and resilience of his forbearers.

Documentation by Han SungPil.