The Whispering of the Stars

is a 7m50 high video installation, shaped into a totem of 12 screens (3 on each side) around which the spectator is invited to turn around. The metallic structure is surrounded by fabrics of different colors in the manner of “Pake Kongo”, a ritual object of Haitian voodoo. The vertically hung screens showed images of the great annual voodoo pilgrimage in Saut d’Eau, Haiti.

Each year thousands of pilgrims from all over of the country and from abroad come to the sacred fall of Saut d'Eau to make requests to the “loas” (Voodoo spirits) or to fill up with energy for a year. In the Haitian voodoo tradition, it is said that the year begins on July 16th.

For the installation Whisper of the Stars, the videos shot were edited and mixed with other images of African or Buddhist ritual objects. On the structure were hung statues of Catholic saints, small straw chairs found in Voodoo sanctuaries in Haiti. At the ends of the installation tubes were attached bird feathers.

The video installation aims at becoming a kind of artistic ritual object, which seeks to bring art, humans, spirits, stars, cosmos into dialogue. The soundtrack is bewitching and hypnotic.

The installation is an invitation to meditation, to silence because it is in the interior silence that we can hear what the spirits, the stars, the cosmos have to whisper to us.