HAITIAN PHOTOGRAPHER WILDLINE CADET PRESENTS EXHIBITION AT CASA DE AMERICA
Haitian photographer Wildline Cadet's exhibition Take this with you at Casa de América portrays the longing for the lost home. It is curated by Nanda van den Berg, Widline Cadet and Désirée Kroep.
Widline Cadet, an artist of Haitian origin, is exhibiting for the first time in Spain. However, she has not been able to travel to the country for the setting up of the exhibition or for its inauguration. Cadet cannot leave the U.S. until she obtains her permanent residency, just as she cannot return to Haiti, her native country. And this is precisely what the exhibition Take this with you is about: the lost home, the fragility of memory or the migratory experience.
The photographs in this exhibition combine presence and absence, reality and fiction or past and future. Cadet combines images from family archives with the photographs she takes of her own family and friends. Together they form a single archive in which different generations and temporal layers coexist. Approaching her family's history through hypotheses creates an interesting dynamic between fact and fiction. Cadet brings both notions together in an authentic "istwa", the Kreyòl word for history.
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Exposición Take this with you / Pran sa avèk ou, de Widline Cadet
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Exposición Take this with you / Pran sa avèk ou, de Widline Cadet
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Exposición Take this with you / Pran sa avèk ou, de Widline Cadet
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Exposición Take this with you / Pran sa avèk ou, de Widline Cadet
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Exposición Take this with you / Pran sa avèk ou, de Widline Cadet
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Exposición Take this with you / Pran sa avèk ou, de Widline Cadet
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Exposición Take this with you / Pran sa avèk ou, de Widline Cadet
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Exposición Take this with you / Pran sa avèk ou, de Widline Cadet
The title of the exhibition - Take this with you - refers to a multitude of things. As a child, the phrase occurred to her as she prepared for her move from Haiti to the United States; as an adult, it reminds her of what to carry when she travels between the two countries. The words also point to photography's ability to flatten three-dimensional objects into something you can keep in your pocket. In times of loss, they can become a link between people far apart in space or time.
For Désirée Kroep, curator of Take this with you and junior curator of the Huis Marseille, "the Haitian visual language is not only in the photographs on display, but in the whole concept and approach of the exhibition". And those who visit the exhibition will literally find themselves in a Haitian home, in the living room of a local house.
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