Nou Mache lè Solèy Kouche

An immersive installation that merges sculpture, light, and generative documentary to create a living archive of memory and cultural resilience. The work evokes the energy of Haiti’s Carnival in Jacmel, drawing on ancestral memory, lived experience, and childhood recollection. It is both celebratory and haunting, embodying the endurance of a people and the porous boundary between the real and the dreamlike.

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The installation incorporates DV footage I shot in Haiti following the earthquake, interwoven with generative film sequences that blur fact and imagination. This fusion creates a shifting documentary space, one where memory and technology co-author a narrative of survival, tradition, and transformation.

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Physically, the work is constructed with sculptural elements made from car parts, sequins, glass, metal, and LED light, echoing my memories of my father’s auto body repair shop in Brooklyn and the vibrant visual language of Kanaval. These objects act as vessels, totems of both personal and collective memory, illuminated by light and accompanied by moving images that breathe life into their presence.

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Through this interplay of archival DV footage, generative imagery, and sculptural form, Nou Mache positions itself as part-installation, part-documentary, and part-memory ritual. It becomes a space where Haiti’s past, present, and imagined futures can coexist, reminding us of the endurance of culture in the face of displacement, upheaval, and change.