Allenby Augustin, Executive Director of the Center d’Art is in our guest chair this week and tells us about the “Archipelago” exhibition, the centre’s 276th exhibition. This will be held at Maison Dufort, in Port-au-Prince, from May 14 to June 18, 2022.
The exhibition “Archipelago” (Archipelago, in French) aims to highlight the works of nine women artists who come from the cross-residence program, launched by the Center d’Art which, among other things, facilitates exchanges between artists from the Caribbean. They are Pascale Bichot (Haiti/France), Pascale Faublas (Haiti), Miriam Hinds-Smith (Jamaica), Nadia Huggins (St Vincent/Trinidad & Tobago), Phaidra McQueen Sterlin (Haiti), Mafalda Nicolas Mondestin (Haiti ), Pascale Monnin (Haiti), Kia Redman (Barbados), and Michelle Ricardo (Dominican Republic).
This exhibition will be curated by Veerle Poupeye, art historian and exhibition curator specializing in Caribbean and Jamaican art.
Music used :
BIC Tizon Dife – I raise my verse.