Rasanbleman | Culture in Place: The Evolution of Haiti Cultural Exchange 2009 – 2022; a photography and archive exhibition from HCX programs featuring Mc Alexander Ciceron, Paul Corbanese, Liz Gauthier, Richard Louissaint, Jocelyn McCalla, Keylah Mellon, Tequila Minsky, and Claire J. Saintil.
On view until November 17th, 2024
Haiti Cultural Exchange, 558 St. John’s Pl, Brooklyn NY 11238
Gallery Hours
Thursday – Sunday, 1pm – 6pm
Wednesdays by appointment only
Co-Curated by Steven Baboun and Kassandra L. Khalil
Archival Manager, Micaela Walker
Graphic Design, Kathryn Dreier
HCX is delighted to present our first exhibition in the new Haiti Cultural Exchange Gallery as part of our expanded Vizyon Atistik programming. Rasanbleman | Culture in Place will highlight our community history with those who have captured our story. Rasanbleman | Culture in Place will feature the work of HCX’s documenting photographers alongside vivid moments from our Archive. Through the lens, this group of artists present their core snapshots of the memories, joy, and growing visions for New York’s Haitian culture in action.
Rasanbleman is a gathering – of ideas, of actions, of energies, of bodies – focused and reshaping to share space together. Gina Athena Ulysse describes rasanblaj as an “assembly, compilation, enlisting, regrouping”. When assembling together, how does a community knit moments in time and place to the fabric of collective memory?
Our presence in community is the core of the archive. Ourselves as creators, storytellers, and witnesses are the originating thread. Holding both heritage and evolution, we mark and strengthen our arrangements to contemporary and future visions of our culture.
Rasanbleman | Culture in Place: The Evolution of Haiti Cultural Exchange 2009 – 2022 will highlight our community’s history with those who have helped capture the texture of gatherings in the Haiti Cultural Exchange story featuring the work of HCX’s documenting photographers alongside vivid moments from our Archive.
Through the lens, photographers Mc Alexander Ciceron, Paul Corbanese, Liz Gauthier, Richard Louissaint, Jocelyn McCalla, Keylah Mellon, Tequila Minsky, and Claire J. Saintil interwork their core snapshots of the memories, joy, and the growing visions for New York’s Haitian culture in action. Alongside these artists’ work, Rasanbleman | Culture in Place will present ephemera from Haiti Cultural Exchange’s presenting history, marking pivotal moments in the continued emergence and visibility of Haitian creativity in New York City.
Rasanbleman | Culture in Place builds off Haiti Cultural Exchange’s current digital and print archive initiative. Spanning the period from 2009–2022, Haiti Cultural Exchange (HCX) is highlighting the vibrancy of the Haitian community, culture, and heritage in a printed anthology and web project.
The online digital archive will feature unique documentation of the creative movement in New York City’s Haitian cultural community. View the online archive preview here!