This essay was written as a commission by Le Centre d'Art for the catalogue of the exhibition by the Haitian artist Tessa Mars titled "île Modèle-Manman Zile-Island Template", at the Maison Dufort in Port-au-Prince, May 31-June 29, 2019. It was translated into French for the catalogue. The original English version is posted here, with permission... Continue Reading →
The More Things Change: Haitian Art in the Western Imaginary
Two troubling documents came to my desk recently and, well, they put a few more bees in my bonnet (it's becoming a bit of a hive in there!). One was a promotional article on a concurrent suite of three "Frieze Week" exhibitions of Haitian art in London that appeared in the Telegraph; the other was... Continue Reading →