A British artist who shared the 2019 Turner Prize with three others, she spent time in 2022 in the city and the archives of the Amistad Research Center. With I Will Keep My Soul, Helen Cammock, who uses film, photography, poetry, and performance to examine her subjects, mixes viewpoints on the ways New Orleans’s variegated past informs its present. Only an artist deploying similarly varied mediums could hope to approach its complexities. It is a conundrum and a paradox, a city of joy and a compendium of sorrows. Its essence is to have uncountable essences, the prodigious layers of unrepeatable history both hidden and everywhere evident. For centuries, artists of many persuasions have tried to portray the character of New Orleans, but the place resists capture.
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