Artists' Protest

Artists’ protest

To resist, it’s to refuse the established order whatever order it is: political order, economic order, social order or cultural order.

For an artist, create is an act of refusing and denouncing the unacceptable, go against the current compulsory forms, it’s giving a shape to an idea. They express themselves with their paints, songs, sculptures; drawings… It’s a way to speak out about important causes. They create movements with manifestos in which they explain their points of view, their perceptions.

Victor Anicet is a “resistant”. With his art and especially with his series “Restitution” in which he recognizes our people’s foundations. He lights up our African roots but most importantly, he reconnects us with the first island’s inhabitants:  the Amerindians. He just doesn’t reproduce the Amerindian art. He appropriates it, he gives it a voice. Those artifacts, those adornos, those pearls, those colors make the identity of Martinique.

His “Restitution” series is a tribute to Martinican people roots.                                               He uses trays: an imported Indian traditional object which was used as an offerings receiver in hindoo temples back at the time, but now simply used in market.  He put African weavings as backgrounds on which he adds the adornos—little Ornamental anthropomorphic or zoomorphic faces/figures of the Amerindian potteries— some products exchanges of the barter triangular as the cocoa beans, the roucou, the coffee, the spices, the glass jewelry etc.                                                                                                                                                                                                  

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