The Barikad Installations (2019)

The Barikad Installations are a series of installations created using textile and fabric, photographic prints, craft materials such as pins, thread, safety pins, and packing tape. These installations are a response to the Summer 2019 lockdown in Haiti where Haitians demanded the departure of President Jovenel Moise. These pieces are a hysterical, playful, and chaotic study of Haiti’s unstable political climate. These installations are a conceptual representation of “barikads” which means “barricade” in Haitian Creole. This term is used in Haiti for when protesters are blocking the streets and roads with tires set on fire, rocks, blocks of cement, and tree trunks.