MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Today’s Miami Proud highlight shines brightly on up to date artist Edouard Duval-Carrié, whose work is each a labor of affection and a lesson in historical past of the Haitian individuals.
Inside his artwork studio on NE 59 Street in Miami, there are mysterious, colourful, magical photos made of each medium filling the house.
“[My work is] quite multi-disciplinary, the only thing I haven’t touched is cinema,” Duval-Carrié stated.
“I’ve always been interested in art. I did not study it which is unfortunate. I am an urban planner and geographer by profession which I never professed. But it permits me to have a greater understanding of the world.”
Duval-Carrié was at all times fascinated by artwork, visiting galleries in Haiti as a toddler and wanting to buy artwork.
So, he determined to begin portray and bought the primary piece he displayed.
Duval-Carrié has traveled, lived, and labored in Puerto Rico, Paris, Montreal, New York earlier than coming to Miami within the early Nineteen Nineties.
“It was a very rough area almost like an ‘OK corral’ scenario, with ‘bang bang’ every night, but we managed and we enjoyed it,” he stated.
When town started to revitalize the world, his position was pivotal.
“I really demanded that they have a gallery,” he admitted.
The gallery is on the Little Haiti Cultural Center on the identical block, the place Duval-Carrié displays there embody the continued sequence Global Caribbean/Borderless Caribbean, in its thirteenth 12 months.
He can also be a founding member and present government director of the Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance, created in 1994 to advertise Afro-Caribbean historical past and artwork.
In his studio, the works exhibited are the interpretations and tales of his native nation of Haiti.
Decades of research and works convey the impression of colonialism, slavery, politics, in addition to the sweetness and resilience of Haitian individuals.
Duval-Carrié is an artist, curator storyteller, and educator.
“I’m not a historian, I’m an artist. I’m always looking at what’s happening around me,” he stated.
A relentless scholar of Haiti and the Caribbean tradition he has traveled overseas to the roots of voodoo, to Benin, Ghana, and Senegal.
Currently, he’s an artist in residence at Centre College in Kentucky.
He is dedicated to presenting the complicated Haitian historical past to audiences in all places together with his artwork.
“An image is more important than anything- you create an image and it’s like a thousand words or a thesis.”
For extra information go to his web site or the Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance right here.
