Maksaens Denis “Selebrasyon ! Ayiti Angaje”

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Maksaens Denis is an multi-media artist from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He graduated from Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle, a Parisian audio-visual school, in 1992. While freelancing for French television channels such as Canal+, Arte, and Mezzo, he started participating in various artistic residencies notably in Burkina Faso, Los Angeles, Khartoum, and Montreal. By 2009, he was participating and curating art shows, and in 2010, he won the Blachère Foundation prize for his “36 Seconds” installation at the contemporary art biennale in Dakar, Senegal. Known for his artistic video practice, Maksaens Denis is a visionary pioneer of the moving image, whose influence has global resonance.