Marie-Denise Douyon
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Biography
Mixed Media with Bike Parts
37" x 29” x 5"”
Marie-Denise Douyon, a Canadian artist of Haitian origin, began a life of migratory peregrinations growing up in North Africa, first in Algeria and then in Morocco. Her childhood experiences were like an arabesque, interlaced with distinctive confluent artistic idioms of the Maghreb and the Mediterranean, rendering an organic, multifaceted cultural identity.
From Africa, Marie-Denise moved her permanent residence to Montreal, after an interim of a few years from Haiti. To anchor her multicultural identity, Marie Denise focuses her art on her African heritage.
Recently, her concerns for the socio-environmental disasters which threaten our planet have led Marie-Denise to create a series of contemporary works using recycled materials. To question our conscience, the artist tackles current issues the exodus of environmental refugees, the export of dangerous waste, the effects of carbon dioxide.
Marie-Denise received a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. She has exhibited in Montreal, Toronto, New York, Miami and the Caribbean.
Artist's Statement
Evolving in a world increasingly alarmed by global warming, my concerns on mass consumption have multiplied since the year 2000, impacting my artistic quest. As a result in my recent work, my thematic creations are comments on consumer culture and ecological and social disasters.
In addition, creating by integrating recycled objects emphasizes the individual role and personal contribution of each, which in my view, reinforces a social collective consciousness. I believe that this vision is an essential challenge for future generations. With the arts serving a social mission, I would like for my work to contribute to the building, of a constructive society based on equity.