OTÒN AYISYEN : BLAN PEYI
STEPHANE LAJOIE
2024 | SEPTEMBER 12 – OCTOBER 10
Opening on September 12
Blan peyi , the first exhibition in the Otòn ayisyen series that will run until December 2024 and which highlights the art of the Haitian diaspora, presents the works of visual artist Stéphane Lajoie. His works include collages and paintings that address the inseparable political and social situation in Haiti through the combined prisms of pictorial and written languages. These include newspaper excerpts, photos, objects, handwritten text and painting.
The whole mix of street art , neo-expressionism and primitivism illustrates through its elaborate narrative graphics the "turning of the world upside down" thus translating into the chain of crises that highlights the failure of the humanitarian aid plans set up under the aegis of the United Nations by the economic powers mainly involved, Canada, the United States and France. In his artistic approach that questions his previous principles, Stéphane Lajoie invites us to reflect on the reverse side of humanitarian aid, the mechanisms of the enslavement of the Haitian population and the possible solutions to consider to break the cycle of dependency that results from it.
BLAN PEYI
Blan - Gwo manjè - Nèg la - Fanm - Dièsibon
Acrylic on 10 canvases
104"x48"
PREZIDAN
Peyi Tèt Anba II
Collage on honeycomb cardboard
32"x24"
HUMANITARIAN TARGET
(JIM CROW)
Le monde diplomatique VI
Acrylic and collage on newspaper
26"x21"
SHAMO
(UNTITLED)
Le monde diplomatique V
Acrylic and collage on newspaper
26"x20.5"
PA GEN KOURAN
(THREE PONTIFi)
Le monde diplomatique IV
Acrylic and collage on newspaper
26"x21"
EDE NOU SOTI (AYITI)
Made in Canada with domestic and imported ideas
Acrylic and collage on cardboard box
32.5"x32"
IBO LELE / DELMAS 73-75
Passeport
Acrylic and collage on canvases
Diptych
30"x24" / 30"x24"