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Manuel Mathieu is a Haitian-Canadian artist working with painting, ceramic, film, and installation. His multidisciplinary practice investigates themes of historical violence, erasure, and spiritual legacy. His interests are partially informed by his upbringing in Haiti and his experience emigrating to Montr茅al at the age of 19. Mathieu鈥檚 varied output moves between abstraction and naturalistic, but spiritually inflected, visual imagery.

Pendulum was awarded Best Short Film in the 41st Edition of The International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) in March and was exhibited during the New Orleans Film Festival in November 2023. The short film utilizes nonlinear storytelling and symbolic representations of freedom to demonstrate the collective, generational, and ongoing pursuit for liberation. It depicts the search for an equilibrium between the past and an uncertain future. A woman knowledge keeper carries the liberation of her soul鈥攈er most precious legacy鈥攐n her shoulders. According to the artist鈥檚 description, 鈥渢his legacy sets in motion a spiritual choreography in which a group of men master their own freedom as they confront the complexities of their humanity. In the midst of this perpetual exorcism, they assimilate their liberation under a shower of white comets. What will remain of our essence? A new day begins.鈥�