ケネディ・カーター

Kennedi Carter

Kennedi Carter, the grand prize winner of the International Collotype Competition 2025, organised by Benrido, will present a solo exhibition of her work. The exhibition will feature eight collotype prints from her award-winning work “The Water Bring We… The Water Wanna Take We Back….”
This work is a visual exploration of the Gullah Geechee culture rooted in the Sea Islands of Georgia and South Carolina. The Gullah Geechee people are descendants of enslaved West and Central Africans who, through isolation and resilience, have preserved their language, spirituality, and cultural traditions. The region’s distinctive marshes, rice fields, and coastal landscapes carry a sense of natural beauty and mystery, embodying the enduring strength of both its culture and ecosystem. Through depictions of Lowcountry rituals and Hoodoo and conjure practices, the work examines how ancestral memory and spiritual belief sustain a sacred relationship between people, land, and sea, and how these practices continue to serve as forms of resistance and renewal in the face of cultural displacement, climate change, and historical disruption. In essence, the project illuminates the spiritual and cultural resilience of the Gullah Geechee people, inseparable from the landscapes that have shaped them.