Beaded Vodou Flag – Stylised Figure
A beaded ritual composition with a stylised frontal figure.
€420
Decorative arts
Vodou Flag “La Sirène”, signed AZOR
€1,000
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- Period
- Late 19th – 21st century
- Origin
- Haiti
- Material
- Fabric embroidered with glass beads and sequins
Description
An emblematic piece of Haitian ritual art depicting La Sirène, spirit of the waters.
La Sirène, with braided hair and a pink fish tail, stands out against a midnight-blue beaded ground within a green border. The name “LA SIRENE” is inscribed in the composition, and the work is signed “AZOR”.
In Haitian Vodou, Lasirèn is a spirit (lwa) of the waters, associated with beauty, wealth and healing; her attributes are the mirror, the comb and the trumpet. Vodou flags — drapo — are hand-embroidered with thousands of glass beads and sequins sewn one by one onto the fabric.
Roudy Azor, trained in the workshop of Myrlande Constant — a major figure in this art form — opened his own workshop in Port-au-Prince in 1998; he is one of the first men to gain recognition in the field of the beaded flag.
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