OTÒN AYISYEN : BLAN PEYI

"Blan peyi," the first exhibition in the "Otòn ayisyen" series that will run until February 2025 and which highlights the Haitian diaspora art, presents the works of visual artist Stéphane Lajoie. His works include collages and paintings that address the inseparable political and social situation in Haiti through the combined prisms of pictorial and written languages. These include newspaper excerpts, photos, objects, handwritten text and painting.

The entire mix of street art, neo-expressionism and primitivism illustrates through its elaborate narrative graphics the “world upside down turnaround” thus translating into the crises chain that highlights the humanitarian aid plan’s failure put in place under the United Nations aegis by the economic powers mainly involved, Canada, the United States and France.

In his artistic approach which calls into question his previous principles, Stéphane Lajoie invites us to reflect on the humanitarian aid reverse side, the Haitian population enslavement mechanisms and the possible solutions to consider in order to break the dependency cycle which results from it.