OTÒN AYISYEN: MADE IN AYITI
2024 | NOVEMBER 21 - DECEMBER 21
Opening on November 21
Closing on December 21
Made in Ayiti, the third and last exhibition in the Otòn Ayisyen series which took place from September to December 2024 and which highlighted the art of the Haitian diaspora, presented the works of photographer Roberto Stephenson.
« These objects are survivals!
Strolling down town, walking or driving streets crowded with people, crowded with sellers. Sidewalks are markets, places of survival. Anything can be sold and nothing goes lost, a pair of old shoes or two bananas, it doesn’t matter. When you’re hungry, when you have nothing, you do what you can with whatever you have, and if nothing is what you have... you’ll just have to make something out of it... something out of nothing. The sidewalk is where everything happens and it becomes a mall: each seller has to be noticed struggle for visibility, goods are jazzed up, the spot organized comfortable and shadowed. Tools and objects, themselves survivors, as cats, they have multiple lives. Immortal objects capable of adjusting to alternative roles. To die is a luxury reserved to those countries where everything is consumed. »
Roberto Stephenson
