Gallery TPW’s commissioning project Triangle Trade featured Jérôme Havre, Cauleen Smith, and Camille Turner. Created during a year of cross-border conversation on their specific relationships to land and belonging, Havre, Smith, and Turner collaborated on a new short film that featured three puppet avatars—performing the selves of Havre, Smith, and Turner—navigating distinct worlds that at once isolated them and offered them the possibility of transformative connection. As they moved through their respective landscapes, Havre, Smith, and Turner’s puppets reflected on blackness as a state of becoming, a mode of experience that reaches simultaneously into multiple futures and histories. The film was accompanied by a new multi-channel CCTV video installation developed by Smith that created feedback loops of seeing and being seen amid the immersive environment.

This project is supported by Partners in Art.