EDOUARD DUVAL-CARRIÉ

After fleeing Haiti as a young man, Edouard Duval-Carrié developed an artistic practice influenced by magical realism and Vodou, addressing complex themes such as the Caribbean diaspora and migration. Using mixed media, he creates vibrant, naïve, dreamlike and surreal images, his unsettling strategies challenging and subverting dominant narratives and juxtaposing mythological figures, deities and Haitian national heroes in an imaginary gallery of numinous icons inhabiting mysterious scenes and richly symbolic backgrounds.