Myrlande Constant

(Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1968 - )

Haitian

Myrlande Charles Constant is a pioneering Haitian textile artist whose works reflect the country’s distinctive history and culture through the syncretic religion of Vodou, which is itself a mixture of West African religion, Central African Religion, and Catholicism. The Haitian writer Évelyne Trouillot has observed: “Diving into Myrlande Constant’s shimmering and amazing world, I found fragments of my country. Haiti’s sequins of life, Haiti’s changing pearls, brightly colored Haiti, Haiti’s mosaics of pain and struggles. Multiple, complex, and irrepressible Haiti… There is an epic and majestic dimension to Myrlande Constant’s flags, not only because of their gigantic size, but also due to the complex gaze they offer us on ourselves.”

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