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Six figures move in an unbroken sequence and release. Mawoule (freedom) is translated into a dancer’s being rather than a fixed state. The woman, multiplied across her space, echoes the habitual undulating Haitian movements vocabulary often found at the root of traditional folklore, where the body tells a memory of resistance and freedom. In ‘danse mawoule’ the artist’s inheritance turns feminine through a chorus of the same self, insisting on her right to take up space with her ancestors and lwas(spirits). ‘Danse Mawoule’ is a painting for the women who move anyway as an act of embodied marronage through rhythm and refusal.
Six figures move in an unbroken sequence and release. Mawoule (freedom) is translated into a dancer’s being rather than a fixed state. The woman, multiplied across her space, echoes the habitual undulating Haitian movements vocabulary often found at the root of traditional folklore, where the body tells a memory of resistance and freedom. In ‘danse mawoule’ the artist’s inheritance turns feminine through a chorus of the same self, insisting on her right to take up space with her ancestors and lwas(spirits). ‘Danse Mawoule’ is a painting for the women who move anyway as an act of embodied marronage through rhythm and refusal.