Modes of Connectivity
Project_Stina Baudin is contemplating the mathematical use of graphs. Her project begins with a question: what would happen if graphs were subverted in their function? In Black Cartographies, Baudin repurposes the graph as a mapping tool meant to visualize the dualities that lie within the association of objects. Could this approach help redefine our conceptions of history and of the self within a given space?
While graphs are used to facilitate analysis, problem-solving, and data visualization, what happens when it is reappropriated to plot and reorient us towards a different spatial understanding of history and the Black diasporic self? Rather than serving as a tool designed to provide an answer, the graph here is repositioned to pose the questions. In creating her diagrams, Stina Baudin questions the kind of knowledge networks that already shape what we know. How can these maps be used as navigational systems, refusing their original function or predetermined usage?
Concurrently, Stina Baudin will pursue her exploration of ocean data through her project Transatlantic Glitch.
Bio_Stina Baudin is a Haitian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist based between Tiohtià:ke/Montréal and the United States. She is a MFA graduate and Gilbert Foundation Fellow from Cranbrook Academy of the Arts (2025). Baudin works with data, sound, text, archival materials, and oral histories to articulate Black life and its contested histories. Through the interlacing of forms, she assembles fragmented narratives into material expressions that move between fact and fiction, truth and myth. In doing so, her practice gives form to the many bodies of knowledge that flow through geography, ritual, ancestry, and time.
She has participated in residencies at ZK/U Berlin, at the Banff Centre for Art and Creativity (CA), and at Pocoapoco (MX). Recent exhibitions venues include the Joliette Museum and Toronto Biennial of Art. She is a recipient of the Maxwell/ Hanrahan Foundation Materials Award (US) from Cranbrook, The Canada Council of the Arts, Holon Berlin and CALQ (Conseil des Arts du Québec).
Approach_Stina Baudin is attentive to the hidden meanings and histories that various fibers and mediums can convey. Cotton, indigo, and linen alongside commodities like brass, copper and salt all appear in her stories. Oscillating between water and sky, notions of truth and myth, Baudin’s work investigates and attempts to connect threads to the relationships that have shaped the identity, geographical movements, and resistance of Black people.
