Biography
My image making have deep biographical roots: I grew up between Haiti and Jamaica, two post-colonial cultures divided by very distinct languages and traditions. I was raised, after the death of my father at the hands of the Duvalier dictatorship’s secret police, by grandparents who were born and raised in Benin and were devote Muslims and Voodoo practitioners. I spent my youth with them, first as a refugee in Cuba and then as an immigrant in France. They shared parental duties with Jamaican and Israeli relatives, and this complex family network profoundly shaped my worldview. My work transforms these traumatic experiences of linguistic, geographical and social displacement into a multi-layered narrative in different media: first and foremost drawing and painting, but also film, performance, and experimental sounds. It recounts my own story of isolation and exile, and it aspires to be a meditation on the very act of storytelling.
