Poetics of Selfhood / Poétique de L'Ipséité

Launching at the Acadiana Center for the Arts in partnership with La Station Culturelle, Fort de France, Martinique—the exhibition Poetics of Selfhood / Poétique de L'Ipséité probes at the global understanding of the Creole cultural identity. 

Envisioned as a multi-year, multi-destination exhibition, the project brings together diverse artistic explorations by five contemporary artists—all contemplating Creolité from its place in communities around the world : from Martinique to Guyana to Sengal to Acadiana. Locally, the Opelousas artist and folklorist Rebecca Henry, founder of hte Creole Heritage Folklife Center, represents Acadiana's vantage. 

Exemplifying the ways these different, but interconnected, cultures converse—the works presented represent a range of traditional media, as well as more experimental artistic endeavors. 

Over the next five years, the exhibition will travel to locations in Martinique, Belgium, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, and France. Details at acadianacenterforthearts.org.