PRESS
“Hanging from the ceiling and surrounding walls, the sequined drapo or Vodou flags of Myrlande Constant and Yves Telemaque reveal two distinct approaches to the labor-intensive beading technique”
(2018) The Transcendent Spirit of Haitian Contemporary Art
HYPERALLERGIC
“PÒTOPRENS is an exhibition about Haitian artists that rebels against stereotypes that might surround Haitian art, particularly after the devastation of the 2010 earthquake”
https://hyperallergic.com/468542/potoprens-the-urban-artists-of-port-au-prince-pioneer-works/
PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince
Exhibition on view April 23 – August 11, 2019
In conjunction with Haitian Heritage Month, the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami will present “PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince” which brings together the work of over 20 artists working in the Haitian capital.
(2011) A MAGIC OPERATION : the making of Vodou flags
THE COLLEGE HILL INDEPENDENT
“We begin by using knives and carpet tacks to stretch muslin over small wooden frames. The room is full of tapping. Haitian artist Myrlande Constant circles the room as we, a combination of ten adults and students from Brown and RISD, sit in the basement of the Rites and Reasons theater attempting to bead our own Vodou flags”
Photo by Katherine Smith
(2011) Constant: Haiti’s Fiercest Flag Bearer
“Myrlande Constant is undoubtedly Haiti’s fiercest flag bearer. A (drapo Vodou) Vodou flag maker who has been refining her craft in the last two decades..”
Exhibitions
Pioneer Works
PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince brings together the work of over 25 artists working in the Haitian capital. The exhibition, on view September 7 to November 11, 2018, highlights Port-au-Prince’s many diverse centers of cultural production, informal street life, religious heritage, and mythologies to create a compelling portrait of a historically significant and intensely complex city in flux.
In Extremis: Death and Life in 21st‐Century Haitian Art
Fowler Museum at UCLA : September 16, 2012–January 20, 2013
“Heavily beaded and sequined textiles by Roudy Azor and Myrlande Constant that depict the 2010 earthquake and its aftermath. Likewise, paintings by Mario Benjamin, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Didier Civil, Frantz Zéphirin, and Edouard Duval-Carrié and site-specific installations by Maksaens Denis and Jean Robert Celestin all proclaim Bawon Samdi and the Gedes to be paramount spirits for a nation, and perhaps a world, in extremis.”