Dany Laferrière gives the UN a “breath of fresh air”

Richard Head
Special collaboration

According to the author, they will come out “whistle” after realizing that people are constantly creating “at the center of these disasters”. It will be a rare event that will bring them a “breeze of freshness”.

Shortly before leaving for the International Organization for Headquarters in New York, where the opening ceremony of the exhibition took place on Monday evening, Danny Laferier said, “I believe this is the happiest document we have ever presented to the UN. Nomadic heartTells the life of the artist.

“This document says: Art is at the heart of human change. If we do not think so, we will never get there. Negotiations, statistics, documents, studies, research are only important if people are to take into account feelings and emotions. Here in color, in writing, in poetry, in reflection. We have the file of this region of the world where we believe things are being played out, we believe we have lost everything there.

In short, the UN. If diplomats can find solutions to almost unresolved issues in the coming days, Nomadic heart Anything can be a thing.

The exhibition opens in 2020 at the Montreal Quarter des Spectacles, marking the 35-year life of Danny LaFerrier. Composed in the original edition of seven separate paintings, it is inspired by three illustrated novels by Danny LaFerrier, covering his life from his childhood in Haiti to his French academy in Paris, to his years in Montreal and Miami.

After Montreal, Nomadic heart He first traveled to Frankfurt, where the exhibition was a huge success during the book fair in this German city in 2021, when Canada was the guest of honor, then in Tunis and finally in Dubai.

The edition of the exhibition, presented at the UN, is the result of a collaboration between the Diplomatic Representatives of Quebec and Canada in New York and the International Organization of La Francophone.

“Very moving”

General Martin Hebert, Quebec’s envoy to New York, says: “Every morning when I go to work, it’s very heartbreaking to see delegates from different countries see the work of Quebecs of Haitian descent.” ⁇

Nellie O’Connor, an embassy official of Congolese descent, was touched and moved by text written by Danny Laferier on Monday evening. [sa] The mother ignores the reality to sink into dreams after her father’s deportation.

Dany Laferrière dreams of seeing Nomadic heart Continue to travel. In Miami, in Paris and why not, in Port-au-Prince. He sees the adventure of this exhibition as a “gift”. Moreover, we must believe that his stubbornness in creating illustrated novels was rewarded.

“I didn’t want to compare myself to Dylan, but I thought of him when people didn’t accept that way in the first place,” he said. Why not write books like you used to? We attacked him when Dylan switched from acoustic guitar to electric guitar. The same people after the cheering. He had to be stubborn. That’s it, I was stubborn. I now have 6 books and 1200 pages written and drawn. ⁇