"“It is my life living in a hyphenated place,” Drice said during the closing day of the exhibit. “The story of being home and not home,” she explained in an interview. “Although I was born in Brooklyn, there is a hyphenated life between Haiti and Brooklyn. Not totally Haitian. Not totally American.”"
"“I'm learning to dissect 'self' on a cultural and personal level,” she explains. “So my work centers that while also exploring the intersection of how culture survives migration and how it's passed down [or] reinterpreted.”"
"From the initial living room photo onward, the installation itself moves like a migration story. She collates the myriad artifacts to tell a story of migration, memory and belonging, and turns to a single color, blue - because it is the color of water, “what separates us from our homeland,” she says - to unify the experience."
Brooklyn-born Haitian artist Jennica Drice presents an immersive exhibit, “Between Us,” centered on Haitian American life shaped by migration between Haiti and New York. A living room photograph greets visitors with personal mementos from Brooklyn, including Western Union money transfer receipts, a calling card pinned into blue textile collages, and a cyanotype of the Brooklyn Bridge overlooking the Coney Island Hospital where she was born. Drice frames her experience as living in a hyphenated place, home and not home, and focuses on dissecting self culturally and personally. The installation uses blue to unify the experience, linking the color to water and separation from homeland, while collaging artifacts to convey migration, memory, and belonging.
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