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.