The Atiz Rezistans is an artist collective in central Port au Prince. All the artists grew up in an atmosphere of junkyard make-do, survivalist recycling and artistic endeavour. Their powerful sculptural collages of engine manifolds, TV sets, wheel hubcaps and discarded lumber have transformed the detritus of a failing economy into bold, radical and warped sculptures. Their work references their shared African & Haitian cultural heritage, a dystopian sci-fi view of the future and the positive transformative act of assemblage.

Every two years they organise the Ghetto Biennale as an invitation  to visiting Western and non-Western artists to come to Haiti and to produce work on site. For its fourth edition, the Ghetto Biennale invited artists and curators to explore what potentials the radical tools, Kreyòl, Vodou and the Lakou, have to offer to the contemporary world.

http://atis-rezistans.com
http://ghettobiennale.org/