A Vital Matters Artwork: Haiti Madi 12 Janvye 2010 (Haiti, Tuesday, January 12, 2010)

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Haiti Madi 12 Janvye 2010 (Haiti, Tuesday, January 12, 2010)

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Myrlande Constant (b. 1968, Port-au-Prince, Haiti)

Haiti Madi 12 Janvye 2010 (Haiti, Tuesday, January 12, 2010), 2012

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Fabric, beads, sequins

H: 94 in W: 98 in D: 2.5 in

Fowler Museum at UCLA, X2013.35.1a-p

Museum purchase with funds provided by the Fay Bettye Green Fund to Commission New Work, Jerome Joss Endowment Fund, Shirley and Ralph Shapiro Fund in memory of Ethel Berns, and Charles and Carolyn Knobler

Myrlande Constant (b. 1968, Port-au-Prince, Haiti)

Haiti Madi 12 Janvye 2010 (Haiti, Tuesday, January 12, 2010), 2012

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Fabric, beads, sequins

H: 94 in W: 98 in D: 2.5 in

Fowler Museum at UCLA, X2013.35.1a-p

Myrlande Constant (b. 1968, Port-au-Prince, Haiti)

Haiti Madi 12 Janvye 2010 (Haiti, Tuesday, January 12, 2010), 2012

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Fabric, beads, sequins

H: 94 in W: 98 in D: 2.5 in

Fowler Museum at UCLA, X2013.35.1a-p

DESCRIPTION

Myrlande Constant created Haiti Madi 12 Janvye 2010 after the catastrophic 2010 earthquake. Over the course of a year, she filled the canvas with scenes she had witnessed in her own community. Tombs and the cityscape converge on the same picture plane, collapsing into each other. As Constant said, "On that day the city became a cemetery." Images of Haitians experiencing pain, grief, and chaos appear alongside individuals helping one another. Gede, Grann Brijit, and Bawon Samdi, lwa of death and sexual regeneration, command the foreground. Gede, ordinarily a joyful trickster, is on his knees, weeping. His disbelief echoes the words stitched on the two tablets: "Look at our suffering! We cannot count how many thousands of bodies have died, have disappeared, in the earthquake on 4:53 pm, Tuesday, January 12, 2010."

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Myriam J. A.

Chancy

Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities

Scripps College

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Kyrah Malika

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Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Emory University

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Jean-Daniel

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Executive Director, Haitian Cultural Foundation

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Jerry

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Associate Professor, Chair of Black Studies Program

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Katherine

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Fowler Museum at UCLA

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Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities

Scripps College

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Kyrah Malika

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Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Emory University

Faculty Co-Coordinator, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

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Jean-Daniel

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Executive Director, Haitian Cultural Foundation

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Jerry

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Fowler Museum at UCLA

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Myriam J. A.

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Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities

Scripps College

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Kyrah Malika

Daniels

Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Emory University

Faculty Co-Coordinator, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

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Jean-Daniel

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Executive Director, Haitian Cultural Foundation

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Jerry

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Katherine

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Fowler Exhibition

https://fowler.ucla.edu/exhibitions/myrlande-constant/

Argus

https://argus.fowler.ucla.edu/final/Portal/Default.aspx?component=AAFG&record=d449f0c4-2405-474d-ada5-c28bcddde51a

Exhibition monograph

https://fowler.ucla.edu/product/myrlande-constant-work-radiance/

Annotated 3D model

https://skfb.ly/oHT7K

Exhibition press release

https://fowler.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Fowler_PR_MyrlandeConstant.pdf

Kyrah Malika Daniels walkthrough (public program)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuB5fQc_BDo&ab_channel=FowlerMuseumatUCLA

Kyrah Malika Daniels presentation at the Fowler's Myrlande Constant symposium (public program)

https://youtu.be/Zh4ZCY_3t7A?feature=shared

Virtual Exhibition

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=WNKBj4tkkVe

Myrlande Constant Storymap

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/25778d10dd104493b8e4bfb22733772f

Myriam Chancy talk (public program)

https://vimeo.com/832906579/fa7c154ba5?share=copy

NPR Story

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/30/1166970005/myrlande-constant-exhibition-art-haiti-vodou