the artist
Djenabé is a Haitian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist, curator, and writer whose practice explores intimacy, identity, and culture through the mediums of photography, collage and interactive installation.
She is drawn to examining the unseen forces that drive desire, belonging, pleasure and transformation. Archival and found imagery often become material for this inquiry, allowing her to fragment and reconstruct familiar forms while questioning what an image can reveal, conceal or become.
Play has become increasingly central to Djenabé’s process. Through tactile and sometimes impermanent works, she invites audiences to encounter visual art beyond optical observation alone. Djenabé is interested in what happens when an image can be touched, rearranged or left unresolved, creating space for curiosity, impulse and multiple ways of knowing.
