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Four Haitian artists turned grief, memory, and Brooklyn’s gardens into a free show in Prospect Lefferts Gardens

Four Haitian artists present a free community-built exhibition in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, exploring grief, memory, and place through collaborative projects across Brooklyn neighborhoods.

Four Haitian artists — Bo Dautruche, Georgie Exinord, Cici Osais, and Zarita Zevallos — featured in a colorful promotional gr

Four Haitian artists turned grief, memory, and Brooklyn’s gardens into a free show in Prospect Lefferts Gardens

Four Haitian artists present a free community-built exhibition in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, exploring grief, memory, and place through collaborative projects across Brooklyn neighborhoods.

Four Haitian artists turned grief, memory, and Brooklyn’s gardens into a free show in Prospect Lefferts Gardens
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Some of the best art in Brooklyn this week isn’t in a museum and doesn’t cost anything. Haiti Cultural Exchange is presenting the Lakou NOU Culminating Expo Showcase, a free week-long exhibition of work by four Haitian artists-in-residence, on view June 21 through June 28 at 1120 Washington Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens.

The work was made differently from a standard gallery show. The Lakou NOU residency has its artists build their projects with community members rather than alone in a studio, so the pieces carry the histories and inner lives of Brooklyn neighborhoods that rarely make it onto a wall. The organizers call this placekeeping: care, family, and a community’s relationship to the places it calls home.

The four projects are rooted in specific neighborhoods. Bo Dautruche’s “anvan ou bliye // before it’s too late” is a community altar exploring death and grief in East Flatbush. Georgie Exinord’s…

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