Bio

Stina Baudin is a Canadian-Haitian emerging textile artist presently residing in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal, Quebec. She has studied at both Concordia University in Canada and The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Belgium. Her work primarily centers around mythology, black culture, and architectural forms. Using textiles as a framework, her interest lies in investigating and weaving ancestral relationships between fibre and form.

Artist Statement

My journey into the world of textiles began with women. My mother, from a young age, did embroidery and sewed many of her clothing. I remember parading around the house in her custom made attire. My introduction to weaving came when I travelled to Cambodia a few years ago, and stumbled into a weaving cooperative. I fell in love with the craft instantly. I had very little knowledge of what it was that they were doing that day but it all felt too familiar. After studying Fiber Arts in Belgium, I returned home to find myself full of questions about being Black both at home and overseas. Questions about Black representation in culture, migratory tales, architecture, and myth are at the forefront of my thinking. In my piece, Revelations, I revisited and reclaimed the beauty found in Black culture. Both the sport of basketball and African hairstyles have gained popularity via Black representation. The traditional coils of hair wrapped to mimic water reveal Black people’s indispensable role in the creation of popular culture. While I was studying abroad, I found myself facing my Blackness in a new way.

Quarantine has allowed me the time and space to think about these issues, to create and to dream up new concepts. My untitled piece is a sample of a new larger project I am working on in collaboration. As a Haitian-Canadian presently residing in Montreal, there are so many untold stories to tell. I want to use this time to delve deeper and create stories that are inclusive to the Black Canadian experience.

www.stinabaudin.com

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