Haïti Chérie
Sasha Huber
Haïti Chérie is a respond to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. A few weeks after the catastrophe Huber carries out a performance over the snowy, seemingly endless, frozen sea in Finland, waters carrying on to reach the coasts of Haiti. Snow angels drawn by Huber’s body symbolize sorrow and lives lost, but also solidarity and hope.
Production Year
2011
Duration
00:06:19
Type
Genre
Tags
body image,
expressionism,
families,
feminism,
landscape and nature,
nature,
performance (art forms),
personal narrative,
winter
Original Title
Haïti Chérie
Finnish Title
Haïti Chérie
English Title
Haïti Chérie
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Sound
Yes
Cast
Sasha Huber (Author), Oliver Blank (Composer), Sasha Huber (Director), Fernando Teixeira (Editor), Sasha Huber (Actor), Petri Saarikko (Casting)
Press Photos
Sasha Huber (CH/FI) is a Helsinki based multidisciplinary visual artist of Swiss-Haitian heritage. She works and presents her work internationally and is primarily concerned with the politics of memory and belonging, particularly in relation to colonial residue left in the environment. Sensitive to the subtle threads connecting history and the present, she uses and responds to archival material within a layered creative practice that encompasses performance-based interventions, video, photography, and collaborations. Huber is also claiming the compressed-air staple gun, aware of its symbolic significance as a weapon while offering the potential to renegotiate unequal power dynamics. Huber works regularly in a creative partnership with her partner artist Petri Saarikko. She holds an MA from the University of Art and Design Helsinki and is presently undertaking practice-based PhD studies.
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