AKANSYÈL (2019)

AKANSYÈL, or rainbow in Haitian Creole, is a 3-channel video performance piece about a fictional marriage between queerness and Catholicism through the Haitian church framework. The artist attempts to unite two pieces of textile, tied off-screen, in their mouth. One fabric represents queerness while the other represents Catholicism. The choices of red and blue fabrics allude to the Haitian flag. In this endurance piece, the performer aims to reconcile these two conflicting cultural entities that is very much apart of their identity.