Pivotal Exhibition Highlighting Works By Haitian Women Artists Closes This Weekend In Brooklyn

Photos: Artist Works Screenshots Brooklyn, NY — June 2, 2026 — Haiti Cultural Exchange, Vizyon Atistik is pleased to present What Paper Remembers: Marks, Memory and Labor, an exhibition of works on paper by women artists across generations, presented by Curatorial Fellow Yvena Despagne and Executive Director Régine M. Roumain. Through drawing, printmaking, collage, and mixed media, the exhibition considers paper as a material that carries memory, labor, and cultural continuity. Paper absorbs gesture records pressure and hesitation, time, revision and return, while holding traces of the hand and the persistence of ideas.  Centering practices shaped by embodied knowledge and movement across place, the exhibition affirms paper not as a provisional surface, but as one that remembers and endures. This exhibition draws on traditions of storytelling and record-keeping shaped through movement and change, where each work reflects acts of preservation. Paper bears the imprint of the hand that shaped it while holding memory with remarkable precision. The artists position paper as a deliberate and enduring space in which lived experience is carried forward, and where marks serve as witnesses to time. Across varied practices, the works reveal how meaning emerges through layering, removal, and touch, shifting paper from a neutral ground into an active agent in the inscription and formation of memory. Moving between intimacy and assertion, the exhibition brings forward practices long positioned at the margins while emphasizing their conceptual and material force. Here, paper holds thought, labor, and lived experience, sustaining what might otherwise fade. It absorbs touch even as it carries personal and cultural histories, insisting on its role as both record and witness. The exhibition will be on view from April 25 through June 7, 2026 at Haiti Cultural Exchange, located at 35 Lafayette Ave. Brooklyn, NY. An opening reception, panel discussions, and community workshop will further explore the craftsmanship of working with paper and its preservation of memory and time.  Featured Artists  Sally Binard  | Ani Brutus | Jennica Drice  | Mel Isidor  | Nathalie Jean-Baptiste | Rejin Leys  | Michèle Voltaire Marcelin | Julie Rouzier Mevs | Vanè Russo  PROGRAMMING: Collage Art Workshop Host: Mel Isidor Date: Sunday, June 7, 2026 Time: 2-4pm Description: Discover the art of collage in this engaging, beginner-friendly workshop designed to spark imagination and experimentation. Using a mix of found materials, papers, images, and textures, you’ll learn how to layer and compose elements into a visually compelling piece that reflects your personal memory. Participants will be guided through a short introduction to the history of collaging and an overview of key techniques and approaches. With guided support throughout, you’ll explore composition, color, and storytelling as you cut, arrange, and assemble your own original collage. Emphasizing creativity, play, and self-expression, this session invites you to loosen up, try new ideas, and enjoy the process of making something uniquely yours. Closing Reception Host: Yvena Despagne & Régine M Roumain Date: Sunday, June 7, 2026 Time: 4-7pm Description: Join HCX curators and artists for the final day of this pivotal exhibition highlighting works on paper by women artists that consider paper as a site of memory, intimacy, and resistance. The exhibition affirms paper not as a provisional surface, but as one that remembers and endures.