IRREVERSIBLE Edouard Duval Carrie Limited Edition Dec 2009 (art magazine)
December 9, 2009 norelkysb 10 other publications
THE ENTRANCE OF THE VODOU GODS INTO MIAMIThe lwa,---as Haitians call their living gods---have been on the move for five hundred years. And Haitian-American artist Edouard Duval-Carrié has tracked their every step from the idyllic forests of Dahomey, to the slave plantations of St. Domingue, to their new hangouts in sexy Miami. No other artist has ever chronicled so much of Haiti’s extravagant history, nor done so by creating such over-the-top imagery. His paintings, sculptures and altar assemblages re-script the progress of Haitian history as if were all some post-modern production of a Samuel Beckett play: surreal stage sets whose grotesque actors---Gods, Slaves, Caciques, Generals, Mermaids, Courtesans, Dandies---jostle each other amid suffocating lianas or in flimsy boats.
THE ENTRANCE OF THE VODOU GODS INTO MIAMIThe lwa,---as Haitians call their living gods---have been on the move for five hundred years. And Haitian-American artist Edouard Duva...
