Publication ÉDOUARD DUVAL-CARRIÉ | DÉCOLONISONS LE RAFFINEMENT

In the Caribbean, clashes, reconfigurations, and the invention of novelty have shaped existence. Édouard Duval-Carrié disrupts this logic with a practice that, while deeply rooted in Haiti’s symbolic universe, can also be seen as “the reinvention of novelty”— comprised of repetitions, adaptations, and breaks, but also multiplicity. The works presented in this exhibition contribute to an overthrow of the past that has been deliberately created by the artist in an attempt to establish a distinct visual vocabulary expressing the history of the Caribbean. This history is not a burden, but rather an active memory and a liberation that allows us to face the present.