FIYET LALO

2021

Installation: Silk fabrics, wooden bar, video.

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Three long, semi-transparent curtains form a large screen. On each side of the curtains, a video is projected. The videos are projected onto the curtains, each representing a member of the artist's family. All we can see are mouths singing a nursery rhyme called Fiyet Lalo. The rhyme is about Haiti's national security volunteers during the Duvalier dictatorship. A time notorious for the violence the country suffered, and for the many injustices between different social classes.