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La Maison Française of NYU has historically been a home to great thinkers and artistic expression from throughout France and the Francophone world. We want to share with you an exciting opportunity to include emerging as well as established voices in this rich cultural heritage.
La Maison Française wishes to make available They’ll Say We Enjoyed It by Haitian-born, Brooklyn-based visual artist, Fabiola Jean-Louis for permanent installation and public viewing in our main lecture hall. This large-scale photograph from her series Rewriting History recasts a Haitian woman in the role of nobility.
Addressing the fraught issues of slavery and colonialization, nobility and French traditions, this powerful work raises the kinds of questions we strive to ask, ponder, and debate at La Maison Française of NYU. Here at LMF we prize intellectual and artistic freedom above all. Your gift towards the acquisition of this work signals value in those freedoms, as well as support for underrepresented voices in the world of French and Francophone culture.
We are hoping to raise the requested funds by Friday December 23, 2022. Matching donor opportunities are available, although no gift is too small. All of the funds will go directly to the artist. We hope you will donate generously and spread the word in support of this new and vibrant addition to La Maison Française’s history as a forum for intellectual expression.
ABOUT FABIOLA JEAN-LOUIS
Fabiola Jean-Louis is a Haitian-born, New York raised mixed media artist. As a teenager, she studied fashion design and illustration at the High School of Fashion Industries, and attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. During her formal education Fabiola became disenchanted with the fashion industry, and left the field entirely. It would take 14 years before she discovered her talent in photography. Through her work, Jean-Louis explores the events of the past, present, and the possibilities of the future that involve her community. A mother of five children, she is self-taught. She is an emerging fine artist who can manifest diverse patterns of space-time, sci-fi, costume design, and surrealism in her work.
