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artist Didier William returns to Miami

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Didier William’s current retrospective is, more so than most, an origin story. The artist’s family emigrated from Port-au-Prince in Haiti to North Miami when he was a child, and he grew up in two houses near the present site of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) North Miami, which is hosting the show curated by Erica Moiah James (until 16 April 2023). Two of the most recent works on view are paintings of those childhood homes, each floating uneasily on a conglomeration of limbs rendered in William’s distinctive, densely rendered brushstrokes.

In another real sense, the exhibition—and William’s work more broadly—is about the fluidity and hybridity of identity and experiences of dislocation, as intimated by its title, Nou Kite Tout Sa Dèyè, Haitian Creole for “We’ve Left That All Behind”. William discusses the experience of returning to the neighbourhood of his youth, taking stock of his oeuvre up to this point…

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