Curated by: Maksaens Denis, Michelange Quai and Miguel Trelles
Assistant curator: Tatiana Ronderos
Special guest: Maud Duquella honoring Arnaldo Roche Rabell
Physical Venue:
The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center,
LES and Abrazo Interno Galleries
107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002
Virtual Venue:
A Virtual Exhibition through Teatro LATEA´s website and Facebook Channel
Website: www.teatrolatea.org
Facebook Channel : https://www.facebook.com/teatro.latea/
Video Feature with Frames and Stretchers:
To celebrate our recent work with Puerto Rican-Haitian artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, Frames and Stretchers invites you to watch a short documentary filmed in our studio at The Clemente by Auduz Productions:
Opening Night:
Meet the video artists involved in the 15th Annual Puerto Rican Arts Festival Borimix followed a special invocation by Bori-Ayiti’s curator Michelange Quai
A Virtual and physical Jam @ Teatro LATEA’s website and Facebook Platform
November 7th at 8:30pm EST
Website: www.teatrolatea.org
Facebook Channel : https://www.facebook.com/teatro.latea/
El Clemente, Teatro Sea and Teatro LATEA are pleased to present Bori-Ayiti: Tree of visions, the virtual and physical art exhibition of the Annual Puerto Rican Arts Festival Borimix. This year we celebrate Haiti. The opening night will include performances by Haitian musician Okai Muisik and the boricua Latin Jazz maestro Fernando Garcia and his Bomba troupe joined by Regime Romain.
The exhibition displays the artwork of 20 Haitian and Puerto Rican video artists. the Haitian work exhibited/streamed in “Bori-Ayiti: Tree of visions” transports Puerto Ricans, all Antilleans and many Latin Americans, to a place as likely to be familiar as it is likely to be unknown. And yet certain traits of the architecture, the music, and even the people’s expression lead to a place not unlike home.
Some Haitian and Puerto Rican pieces allude to a fundamental history of the Indigenous, America, the Mestizo America, the Black and Mulatto America, the America where Spanish, Portuguese and French are spoken. This is a heritage bequeathed to the world by Afro-descendants that were coerced into learning the beliefs of others, which they in turn internalized and learned to wield with mastery. Consequently, the very “professor” disqualified them from the recitation. The triumph of Haitian self-determination after the Haitian Revolution led to their ostracism by the rest of the Caribbean, the Americas, and Europe. And still, the world continues to be afraid of the ultimate consequences of a “truth” that exacted liberty, equality, fraternity for some at the expense of others.
Some things have not changed, we are in a moment where the hope for change has reignited. Our Bori-Ayiti is a celebration of the Antillean brotherhood/sisterhood and our humble homage to the Haitians who, with enduring sacrifice, opened the way for an ever-elusive equality.
For more information please contact: info@teatrolatea.org
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Bori- Ayiti: Tree of Visions exhibition
Participating artists
Dymy Chouloute
Awilda Sterling- Duprey
Shirley Bruno
Margarita Vincenty
Daniel Lind-Ramos
Adler Pierre
Julián Garnik
Romel Jean Pierre
Melvin Audaz
Steevens Simeon
Juanita Lanzó
Michelange Quay
José Luis Cortés
Maksaens Dennis
Marco Saint-Juste
Castellana
Margarita Vincenty
Gasner Francois
Marco Saint-Juste
Arnaldo Roche
LES Gallery
Patricia Brintle
Mrs. Brintle is Haitian, self-taught and a full-time artist. She emigrated to New York City in 1964 but travels to her homeland every year. Brintle’s art does not follow a particular style, rather, it responds to the moment. Her art calls the viewer to a thoughtful reflection as they discover something new in the Haitian life, culture, and history. Brintle’s art bridges the gap between the Haitian on the island and the Haitian Diaspora. It tells a story which often continues in subsequent paintings because it keeps an open mind and moves on its own. Brintle believes that her responsibility as an artist resides in the artwork itself. Once finished, it belongs to the world and each viewer takes a piece with them; once signed, the artwork flies on its own.
Abrazo Interno Gallery
Diógenes Ballester
Mr. Ballester is a renowned visual artist, writer and educator from Ponce Puerto Rico and has lived in New York City (East Harlem) for the past 40 years. The creation of his installations is derived from his experiences is Paris, New York, Asian, the Caribbean and of course Puerto Rico. Following his thinking as an arteologist after his return from Paris to New York in 2000. According to Ballester, every artist, in the process of creating art, is also a student and scholar of art, history, culture and philosophy. The artist who consciously engages in this multiplicity of roles can be considered an "arteologist. The arteologist transforms what he or she discovers and like an egregor or griot, the arteologist built connections. In contemporary art these connections bring together cultural identity, historical significance, and spiritual transformation.
Video streaming will be followed by brief artists’ commentary:
November 7th Opening
8pm
Video Artists Greeting
Invocation by Bori-Ayiti’s curator Michelange Quai
Video Preview
8:30pm
Bori-Ayiti Jam:
Afro-Caribbean Jazz with Fernando García featuring Okai Musik joined by:
STREAMINGS
November 9th 5pm
Dymy Chouloute and Awilda Sterling- Duprey
November 11th 5pm
Shirley Bruno and Daniel Lind-Ramos
November 13th 5pm
Adler Pierre and Julián Garnik
November 26th 5pm
Romel Jean Pierre and Melvin Audaz
November 18th 5pm
Steevens Simeon and Juanita Lanzo
Margarita Vincenty and Gasner Francois
November 20th 5pm
Michelange Quay and José Luis Cortés
November 23rd 5pm
Maksaens Dennis and Castellana
November 27th 5pm
Arnaldo Roche Rabell in memoriam
Texts by Maud Duquella
Co-produced by Teatro LATEA
Light Designer - Miguel Valderrama
Tatiana Ronderos - Assistant Artistic Director
Frank Fantini - Director of operations/ Web Master
Miguel Trelles - Executive Director / Artists
For any questions or collaborations please contact us at:
info@framesandstretchers.com / 347-705-0081
Our Locations:
Lower East Side NYC / The Clemente
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