Oolite Arts Conversations: Edouard Duval-Carrié & Guillermina De Ferrari

Haitian-born artist Edouard Duval-Carrié joins scholar and curator Guillermina De Ferrari for a public conversation on Caribbean art, cultural memory and diasporic experience. The Oolite Arts Conversations program takes place Thursday, June 25, at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex. Presented by Oolite Arts, the series brings artists, curators, museum professionals and cultural thinkers together for dialogue on contemporary visual arts.

Duval-Carrié, who is based in Miami, is known for paintings, sculptures and installations that draw on Haitian history, Vodou symbolism, migration, exile and the legacies of colonialism. His work has been included in major international contexts, including Haiti’s first national pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale and documenta XV in 2022, and he was named a Chevalier of France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2014. His long-standing presence in South Florida also includes exhibitions, collaborations and public commissions that have contributed to Miami’s cultural landscape.

De Ferrari brings a scholarly and curatorial perspective shaped by her work on Caribbean literature, visual culture, archives and contemporary art. A Guggenheim Fellow, she is the author of Vulnerable States: Bodies of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction and the forthcoming Broken Tropics: Contingency in Contemporary Caribbean Art. Organized by Rina Carvajal, Oolite Arts Senior Director of Programs, the conversation offers a focused look at Caribbean cultural production, transnational histories and the role of contemporary art in interpreting memory and place.