The Artist

Djenabé is a Toronto-born Haitian-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist and curator keen on creating space for imagination and sparking dialogues that examine contemporary anthropological philosophies. 

Her fascination with identity, oral histories, and archival imagery seep into her artwork. She creates primarily through the mediums of photography, collage and sculpture; she is both seeker and subject, attempting to commune with the spirit of a place/person, hoping to find fragments of herself in every landscape and fleeting encounter. Djenabé’s artwork does not intend to document the physical world she witnesses, but rather the unseen forces that drive her transient pleasures.

As a curator, Djenabé develops multi-sensorial experiences; inviting audiences to touch, co-create, and immerse themselves in the worlds she weaves with other artists. Her curatorial practice refutes temporality, and welcomes multiplicity; layering memories with materials to tell non-linear stories that explore the complex natures of transformation, belonging, and becoming. 

My work is a love letter to the ever-evolving self --a meditation on the fluid nature of time, memory & identity. I seek not just to capture, but to question, to unravel, to prolong the ephemeral.

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