Installation Work 

RANTRE, “to enter” in Haitian Creole, is a 5-channel video performance of site-specific interventions in which the artist returns to sites of trauma in their homeland of Haiti (Their grandmother’s house where they could not express their queerness; a soccer field where boys proclaimed that "masisi's" or fags could not play soccer; and several landscapes around Port-au-Prince which were sites of contemplation and self-doubt about their Haitian identity). The artist goes back to these spaces as a way to reclaim every identity that has been rejected or deemed invisible by Haitian society such as queerness, being of multicultural identities, being mixed race, or of a different religion other than Catholicism (i.e. Vodou). RANTRE is not about seeking acceptance from Haitian society but it is simply the existence of the reject and the ownership of the rejected.

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Steven Baboun