And Then, Perhaps, a Memory

The impetus for this new project by Michaëlle Sergile was provided by the stories of three Haitian women–journalist Michèle Montas, writer Marie-Célie Agnant and Marie Wilnie Brézault, the artist’s mother–who immigrated to Québec and New York at different times. Though the reasons for their journeys differed–exile, constraint, the desire to pass on knowledge–these women carry with them the histories of these places.

In these outsized installations that combine video, weaving, sound and sculpture, the artist offers a reflection on bereavement in which glitches–digital distortions in sounds and visual images–function as a language, blurring time. Here, geographical, architectural and visual fragmentation opens up spaces in which political, intimate and familial memories intertwine and disrupt linear readings of history.