RANTRE (2018)

RANTRE, “to enter” in Haitian Creole, is a video performance of site-specific interventions in which the artist returns to sites of trauma in their homeland of Haiti (Their grandmother’s house where they could not express their queerness; a soccer field where boys proclaimed that "masisi's" or fags could not play soccer; and several landscapes around Port-au-Prince which were sites of contemplation and self-doubt about their Haitian identity). The artist goes back to these spaces as a way to reclaim every identity that has been rejected or deemed invisible by Haitian society such as queerness, being of multicultural identities or of a religion other than Catholicism (i.e. Vodou). RANTRE is not about seeking acceptance from Haitian society but it is simply the existence of the reject and the ownership of the rejected.

Special thanks to:
Ted Momperousse

Jean Claude Michel
Nick Ndouta Nicolas

Natalia Kolbjornsen

Djenane Desrouleaux

Sarah Auguste

Mesye e Madam Nelio

Loriane Baboun

Ralph Baboun

Sarah Yoney

Rosette Jean-Charles

Aurel Espereau

Bondye ak Fòs Yo 

Wynn Farm