doris duhennois

Initié par DDA Contemporary Art et soutenu par l’Union européenne, ce voyage de recherche réunit des artistes et des chercheur·euses afin de rencontrer des pairs à l’étranger, partager leurs pratiques et ouvrir des échanges transrégionaux. Le groupe est composé de Ava Naba (cartomancie et peinture), Marion Ellena (photographie, son et film), Clovis Deschamps Prince (arts visuels et céramique), Doris Duhennois (recherche et film), ainsi que Cleo Verstrepen (recherche et curation), qui assure la coordination du voyage. Accueilli·es par Anda&Fala, iels ont séjourné à VAGA, à Ponta Delgada, sur l’île de São Miguel aux Açores — une île volcanique située à la limite tectonique de l’Atlantique Nord, où des conditions géologiques, climatiques et océaniques singulières se croisent avec des histoires d’installation humaine, d’agriculture, de commerce et d’extraction. À partir de ce contexte, la recherche du groupe explore la circulation des plantes, des routes commerciales coloniales aux enjeux environnementaux contemporains — forêts natives, espèces invasives, plantations de thé, jardins botaniques — en dialogue avec la topographie volcanique de l’île, en surface comme en profondeur : grottes de lave, caldeiras, eaux géothermales et strates invisibles. Au fil de marches, de conversations et de rencontres, iels ont rassemblé des matériaux qui viendront nourrir des œuvres à venir ainsi que des pistes de recherche en cours. @kureopi_ @marion__ellena @cdeschamps_prince @ris.dodu @ava.nabaa @d.d.a_contemporary_art @walktalkazores

Cherche Saïd Ahmed. doris duhennois. CNBL#2. À paraître bientôt ! credit photo : @m.a.a.s_photo

💫 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒕 - 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔! 💫 /articles/10.18573/agoriad.18 My article "Care Makes the Fragments Stronger" is out now on Agoriad! It talks about using creative methods in academia, experimention, collaboration and decolonial activism in the Caribbean - with a lot of pictures and concrete examples 🔥 It also talks about Saint Lucia, Dereck Walcott's poetry, fragments and broken pieces brought together by love and care, and @trustsaintlucia - inspired by Walcott's words : "Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole." 🌋 Thank you @paulmelloncentr and Race Reflections UK for supporting this research :)

I'm glad to say that a work-in-progress version of a film I have produced and written with @mar.achavez is exhibited at Mokili Na Poche in Kinshasa until the 21 december 2025! It is part of a beautiful exhibition titled Le Partage du Travail Sensible : Landscape, curated by @dereckmarouco and funded by the @goetheinstitut

We are so excited to announce that ‘Video of the Month’ is finally back! Every month, you can watch a new one 24/7 at Hegelgasse 14, 1010 📍 Snippets from the Video: Déchoukaj | Healing Landscapes | 13 min (work in progress) | 2025  A film by Mara Chavez @mar.achavez in collaboration with doris duhennois @ris.dodu 
  
Déchoukaj | Healing Landscapes is an experimental documentary that explores questions of memory, erasure and repair in relation to public space in the Caribbean. The project deals with the topic of success in two ways: Firstly, it looks at success as the ability to control a narrative, partake in official memory making and its transmission. By entering in conversation with those first affected by the legacy of colonialism, the work shifts perspective and redefines success as the ability to resist, reclaim and re-imagine.  In Haitian Creole, “déchoukaj” means uprooting, a term now adopted throughout the Lesser Antilles to refer to the destruction of statues built during colonisation. Taking these sites of memory as a point of departure, the film explores how post-colonial communities redefine material heritage. Déchoukaj | Healing Landscapes is rooted in doris duhennois’ doctoral research on colonial memorialisation and Mara Chavez’ blended media approach. By layering oral history, 16mm and 3D animation this first chapter of a film in progress attempts to understand how people feel, live and resist in spaces containing racist symbols and creatively re-imagine public space.

feeling techy with @mar.achavez

winter is hitting london for real, and i just miss mango season in the Caribbean... 1. mango processing time 2. me (unsuccessfully) trying the 'twist and pull' method @sherween_gonzales showed us 3. excess mangoes 4. @mar.achavez processing (over)ripe mangoes 5. Best Saint Lucia flag shoes + mangoes

Some of our favourite sound-taking moments in the Caribbean - stepping away from the monuments to listen differently 01 - best karaoke in Saint Lucia 02 - me recording at the karaoke 03 - @mar.achavez getting reading for underwater recording 04 - @i.said_tara recording sounds in the bay of Fort-de-France (analogue footage) 05 - one of our many attempts to record forest sounds

The ti banc (little bench) is an (extra)ordinary object: it is one of the only objects that enslaved people were allowed to own. They used it to rest, relax and tell stories: from the ti banc, the past could be recounted and imaginary realities could be created. For our experimental documentary, we used the beautiful ti banc crafted by @diana_tuillier as a material and virtual invitation to share old and new stories of (de)colonial spaces. in collaboration with @mar.achavez 01 - 3D scan of the ti banc 02 - Ti banc placed by the empty pedestal where Josephine used to stand, sparking curiosity 03 - me carrying the ti banc in good company 04 - Ti banc in the middle of La Savane thanks again @diana_tuillier !

It was so lovely being invited to present some of my work at @thefountain_fontanen in Lund this week! I shared some stories about the past/present/future of 'la Fontaine Gueydon' in Martinique - reflecting on its colonial history and on how people living around it see it today. It was a great set up to show some archive material I collected over the last two years, an interview of Charles T. by the fountain, as well as footage shot with @mar.achavez for our film documentary -- and to receive feedback from so many wonderful people ✨✨ [1]. Charles.T by the fountain asking what we think of it [2]. Analogue shot of Bar le Gueydon' [3]. Close up of the fountain, Charles saying 'this thing, they built for a reason' [4]. Postcard of the fountain found in an archive collection