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Join Haiti Cultural Exchange for a conversation with the curator of Sacred Banners of Haitian Vodou, Axelle Liautaud, on Thursday, February 13.

Thursday, February 13
6-9pm
6pm: Reception
7pm: An n Pale

 

About The Exhibition

Sacred Banners of Haitian Vodou, on view at the HCX Gallery is curated from the personal collection of Axelle Liautaud beginning in the 1980s, featuring significant flag makers from that era to the present day.

Join exhibition curator Axelle Liautaud for a special art sale and tour. Find a unique gift for your special someone at an exclusive sale of traditional Haitian flags and beadwork pieces.

More information about the Sacred Banners of Haitian Vodou exhibit here.

 

About An n Pale

An n Pale | Let’s Talk is an ongoing series of artist talks featuring conversational encounters with artists engaged with issues connected to Haiti and the Diaspora.

 

Axelle Liautaud

Axelle Liautaud is a Haitian art historian and curator. She is also a designer who works with artists and craftsmen to create unique items. For more than 30 years, she has worked to promote Haitian art and crafts in Europe and the United States. Axelle started collecting Vodou Flags in the 1980s and was the first to introduce Haitian Flags to the international market. With Virgil Young, she organized a collection of beaded artwork in collaboration with great American artists such as Keith Haring, Alison Saar and others. She has collaborated with many museums on exhibitions of Haitian art—most notably, the Fowler Museum in Los Angeles for The Sacred Art of Vodou (1995) which traveled to major museums, including The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, The Museum of Natural History, NY, and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Axelle has been the curator of exhibitions at the Museum of Naive Art in Paris (Halles St. Pierre) (1988), as well as the Organization of American States in Washington (1999), and the Bass Museum in Miami for the Allegories of Haitian Art exhibition, where the filmmaker Jonathan Demme’s collection was put on display (2006). 

Axelle has been a member of Le Centre d’Art’s Board of Directors since 1997 and became Acting President following the 2010 earthquake, the death of Francine Murat, and the collapse of the Centre’s building. After the earthquake, she led efforts to rescue the collections from the rubble, including 4,000 paintings, more than 1,000 sculptures, 500 works on paper, and the largest art and cultural archives in Haiti. In collaboration with the Smithsonian Haiti Cultural Recovery Project, the art and documents were preserved and eventually returned to the Centre d’Art. As president of the Centre, she organized the Piasa Art Auction in Paris in 2017 and curated the Jasmin Joseph show that opened in Port-au-Prince in 2016 which traveled to various museums in France. Axelle stepped down from her role as President at Le Centre d’Art in 2021.

 

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