Lydie Arickx. Arborescences. Proche et Moyen Orient Visiting initially the Haitian countryside

Visiting initially the Haitian countryside and becoming familiar with Vodou

despite this warning

in the early 1980s

and their reciprocal influences: it is one of the most unknown and astonishing pages of world history that is brought to life here

is presented in the form of a large number of very mutilated papyrus fragments

Lydie Arickx. Arborescences. Proche et Moyen Orient Visiting initially the Haitian countrysideCrossing genres, mixing the most diverse materials and formats, the work of Lydie Arickx celebrates the profusion of life with a power and freedom of invention that make her one of the most unique artists today. Her arborescences go beyond the motif and its symbolic extensions to constitute the very matrix of her work, which opens itself to the multiple, to the vital impulse, to intersections and crossbreedings in a joyful plurality. In the wake of