Gérald Alexis (
Aica Caraïbe du Sud) discusses the work of Haitian-born artist Tessa Mars underlining what makes the artist so unique. Here are excerpts translated from the original article.
Before Tessa Mars (1985 -), very rarely had we seen self-portraits of women in Haiti. Even rarer was the use of their naked bodies. We have certainly seen the Maillol series by Rose Marie Desruisseau
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Aica Caraïbe du Sud] that her friends considered to be self-portraits in which she replaced the body of the model Aristide Maillol (1861-1944) with her own. What then makes Tessa Mars’ images so unique?