MEMORY AND DIASPORA IN WIDLINE CADET
Widline Cadet (Pétion-Ville, Haiti, 1992) brings together in her life experience several of the aspects and themes that, perhaps, have inspired more production among all those curatorial lines with more presence. Her biography, constructed through childhood memories, the environment of a generation and a country marked by its own strong culture or the phenomena of emigration, constitutes the framework in which the photographer develops the practical integrity of her work.
Her artistic production invites us to reflect on all these processes and their fragility and volatility over time, while also exploring the sense of the relativity of memory and the courses of attachment and detachment from place and belonging. Cadet maintains a homogeneous discourse, built from those parts that form the same whole, indicating the importance of family ties and relationships that become real photographs of his family and friends, to the criticality of space, that same terrain where identities are forged and, above all, personalities are built.
In Take this with you / Pran sa avèk ou the photographer works precisely with all these elements, but also with the spatial interaction of the exhibition, going far beyond mere photography and taking it to three-dimensional elements and mixed techniques that coexist and develop in dialogue with the corners reproduced through this memory.
It could be a single memory articulated and expressed in multiple works, those that physically capture everything that makes up the memory and its history, the same ones that she remembers as an adult after emigrating to the United States and that conforms, with the distance in between, a personal and transformed memory of a reality placated by time and by the processes of assimilation and custom.
Take this with you / Pran sa avèk ou, by Widline Cadet, can be visited until September 7 at Casa de América, Plaza de Cibeles, s/n, Madrid, Spain.
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