INGANG DESIGN GALLERY
Inaugurated in 2024, INGANG DESIGN gallery offers a committed contemporary visual arts program.
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#427 - 372 Sainte-Catherine Street West - Montreal
EXHIBITIONS
OTÒN AYISYEN : BLAN PEYI
2024 | SEPTEMBER 12 – OCTOBER 10
Opening on September 12 from 5 pm
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Blan peyi, the first exhibition in the Otòn ayisyen series that will run until February 2025 and which highlights the Haitian diaspora art, 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 entire mix of street art, neo-expressionism and primitivism illustrates through its elaborate narrative graphics the “world upside down turnaround” thus translating into the crises chain that highlights the humanitarian aid plans failure put in place under the United Nations aegis by the economic powers mainly involved, Canada, the United States and France. In his artistic approach which calls into question his previous principles, Stéphane Lajoie invites us to reflect on the humanitarian aid reverse side, the Haitian population enslavement mechanisms and the possible solutions to consider in order to break the dependency cycle which results from it.
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CONFERENCES
INGANG is involved with the "Amis du Monde Diplomatique" (AMD) association, made up of a group of readers of Le Monde Diplomatique who participate, through their activities, in conveying the values ​​embodied by the newspaper, that is to say those of "intentional journalism" which takes a critical and committed look at the world.
​HAITI: THE IMPOSTURE OF INTERNATIONAL AID (IN FRENCH)
2024 | SEPTEMBER 5th – UQAM
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A conference on the other side of international aid, the mechanisms of the enslavement of the Haitian population and possible solutions to break the cycle of dependency that results from it. With Frédéric Thomas, political scientist at the Tricontinental Center, sociologist Frédéric Boisrond and Claudia Thomas Riché, nurse and director of Nursing Education Collaborative for Haiti.