The exhibition Images and Reflections of Haiti through its stamps and paintings was launched at the Postal Museum of Mexico with the participation of Dubicart Gallery
On Thursday April 4, 2024, the Postal Museum of Mexico City hosted the Dubicart Gallery and its partners – the Haiti Post Office, the National School of Arts and the Haitian Embassy in Mexico – as part of its annual series of temporary and traveling exhibitions.
For the event, the Dubicart Gallery and its partners, with the valuable support of Los Correos Mexicanos, took pleasure in offering the Mexican public a slice of the history of Haiti – its political culture, its emblematic disappeared buildings, the conservation of its ancestral heritage, the richness of its environment despite the weaknesses in terms of protection, the efforts made over time for its development, its joy of living, its attachment to sport, its openness to the world and the relationship of its inhabitants with the sacred, religion and faith – by combining postage stamps and paintings.
This exhibition also features a set of paintings reflecting a daily lifestyle including the preparation of morning coffee, the sale of sugar cane stalks in the evening on every street corner, drawing inspiration from some of our customs. and customs such as the Rara bands (musical group from the rural world using rudimentary instruments, wandering along mountain paths and breaking the tranquility of towns and villages during Holy Week), highlighting Vodouesque ceremonies and, a common place of all Haitian painting, market scenes.
This activity, which will end at the beginning of June 2024, aims to put the Mexican public in contact with a part of the rich Haitian culture. It is also part of a set of activities planned to commemorate 95 years of diplomatic relations between Haiti and Mexico.
The choice of Mexico is not a coincidence. The Dubicart Gallery organizes a Haitian Philately Fair every year. In 2024, she had selected a set of cities and countries to exhibit Haitian stamps.
Mexico City was one of the destinations for the organizers, taking into account the friendly, cordial, fraternal and supportive relations existing between the two countries; because of the influence of Mexican culture in Haiti (Sunday radio broadcasts of Mexican music called Ranchera – training in Mexico of many generations of Haitian students); due, currently, to Mexico’s hospitality towards Haitian migrants and, in addition, to the availability of Mexico City (Mexico Postal Museum) to host the event with dignity.
This year’s Dubicart Gallery Expo is carried out with the support of the Embassy of Haiti in Mexico. The invaluable participation of the Haiti Post Office (OPH) which made all of the stamps on display available to the Public. ENARTS, for its part, displayed paintings taken from its pool of student works, an opportunity for these young painters to be at the forefront. It should be noted that paintings from the Embassy collection and the painter Tessia Théodore are included. What can we say about the patience of the Mexico Postal Museum and its collaborators who made this project a reality?
The management team of Dubicart Gallery extends its thanks to its collaborators, to the diplomats of the Embassy of Haiti in Mexico, to Los Correos Mexicanos, to the Haiti Post Office, the National School of Arts, to the Media who promoted the project: Juno7 and the newspapers Le National and Le Nouvelliste, and to all those, in one way or another who facilitated the event.
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