Exhibitions: Miami art week 2025
Haiti Through Two Eyes
The Green School Gallery hosts Haiti Through Two Eyes, the inaugural exhibition of the iWitness: Global Borderless Caribbean Initiative. Curated by photojournalist Carl-Philippe Juste, the exhibition features his large-scale documentary photographs alongside mixed-media works by artist Edouard Duval-Carrié.
This collection aims to foster dialogue about Haiti’s rich history and contemporary challenges, highlighting the beauty of Haitian creativity. Through their distinct artistic expressions, Juste and Duval-Carrié invite viewers to engage with the nation’s powerful past and its contemporary complexity.
The works on the wall evoke the unflinching internal strength and cyclical external devastation of this first Black Republic through the eyes of these two world-renowned Haitian artists, who have made their homes in Miami. The show moves from Juste’s Crushed, trained on a young man’s piercing eyes as he vies for water with his neighbors after the 2010 earthquake, to Duval-Carrié’s Beast of Burden, with its evocations of slavery’s brutality and Haiti’s triumph expressed in vibrant colors.
Haiti Through Two Eyes offers audiences a rare opportunity to experience the works of Edouard Duval-Carrié and Carl-Philippe Juste side by side. This exhibition showcases their distinctive artistic expressions while reflecting on the legacy of colonialism, ongoing Western intervention, and the resilience of Haiti as a nation that continues to strive for justice.
The exhibition is organized by the Public Humanities Lab and co-sponsored by the Václav Havel Program for Human Rights & Democracy, the Dorothea Green Lecture Series, and the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center.
SEE THE EXHIBITION:
Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs
11200 SW 8th Street, Miami FL 33199
VIEW CATALOG:
https://indd.adobe.com/view/7d6a6767-8c5a-472b-a81e-4e5afeadb6ab
Landed
Landed, an evocative photographic essay by Steve Dozier that chronicles the arrival of Haitian and Cuban migrants in 1980s Miami—a pivotal chapter in history that remains relevant today. Fleeing violence and oppression, these individuals left their homes behind, embarking on harrowing journeys in search of freedom and a better life. Landed captures their struggles and aspirations, inviting viewers to reflect on the enduring quest for refuge and opportunity.
In the tumultuous 1980s, Miami transformed into a newly dynamic space as waves of refugees from the crumbling Soviet Union (refuseniks) arrived and as the rising cocaine crisis and civil unrest, marked by the McDuffie Uprising, spilled into the streets. Within this complex landscape, Haitian and Cuban immigrants forged their paths—one group fleeing the oppressive Duvalier regime, the other seeking asylum through the Mariel Boatlift; both found themselves caught in this fraught mix.
Yet, the promise of freedom inspired the striving of both groups of islanders. Cuban migrants were welcomed into the fold—“Welcome to the Orange Bowl”—and Haitians huddled together after being wrangled by the police on Miami Beach. From the policies of wet-foot/dry-foot, put in place to protect Cubans and briefly Haitians, to the Haitian Refugee Center (HRC) set up to help, Miami found space, however unequal, for these growing communities, no matter their skin tone. The tensions, though, were palpable.
While the “American Dream” is universally sought after, day-to-day life in Miami in the 1980s was anything but universal; Cubans and Haitians, by and large, lived very different lives upon arrival. This universality, though, has its place in the humanness of pain and suffering, hope and love, and on the faces of those who arrived, Cuban and Haitian alike. Landed gives us pause and challenges our assumptions about the elusive deferred fantasy.
SEE THE EXHIBITION:
IPC ArtSpace
225 NE 59th Street, Miami FL 33137
VIEW CATALOG:
https://indd.adobe.com/view/3d6688cf-2276-416a-a09f-08eba76afc81
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