Lherison Debrise

Lherison Debrise (also spelled Lherison Debrues/Lherrison Debrues) is a Haitian artist.
Early life
Debrise was born in Cap Haitian in 1971. At fourteen he followed his mother to the Bel Air area after she left when he was a young child. He lived near a Vodou Priest and flag maker known as Tibout, where he often spent much of his time. He later “began participating in the atelier, which included flag making".
Career
Debrise began creating his own flags and searching the rural areas for objects he could sell in the Port-au-Prince market. He later combined his business with local sculptors who worked in the Iron Market, acting as an agent for them.
Debrise decorates human skulls with sequins, and decorates them to represent Port-au-Prince. Debrise’ sequins are used in his decoration of Vodou flags.
Debrise’ art is considered “post-Kreyol” or Creole. Kreyol is the culture admitted by French colonies in the Americas. “Kreyol culture is guided by the upper and middle classes of Haiti, classes that Debrise is not from. Kreyol culture in poetry, in music, hide the raw, the gothic, the ‘ugly’ He, on the other hand, brings all of this to his audience, as the truth about Haitian society and especially Haitian imagination.”

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