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| Keywords: Edouard Duval-Carrié in studio.jpg en Screen capture from the movie shown at 00 55 Original VOA info Every artist has an inspiration For some it's a person For others it's a place Hard at work in his Miami studio Haitian artist Edouard Duval-Carrié pours his roots into his art What I try in my work is to show that Haiti is a very complex place he explains It has a very convoluted history interesting history and that ™s worth looking at That ™s worth studying For more than 30 years Duval-Carrié has focused on Haitian themes a people once colonized viewed as disease-ridden I ™ve been downloading bacterias from the computer And these are little collages that I ™ve been doing he explains They ™ve been saying that Haitians carry all sorts of diseases so I ™m playing with the idea And then there's Voodoo - that hybrid religion born among African slaves brought to Haiti Voodoo gods are a major part of Duval-Carrié's work and many Haitians' lives he says despite others' negative views of the religion They have constructed that religion as something completely off the wall but it ™s not Duval-Carrié insists Last year he even incorporated a Voodoo deity in a piece on Haiti ™s earthquake She ™s under Earth this time and holding up what ™s left of the cathedral he says as he shows the work of art He says it shows that Haitians have to draw upon all available resources for strength Voodoo to the help of Catholicism the artist jokes Bernice Steinbaum owns a gallery featuring several of Duval-Carrié's works She says Haitians feel the need to hide Voodooism but Duval-Carrié is helping change that He has given faces to the Voodoo gods Heretofore we would read about them and we would talk about them but we never could picture their faces Steinbaum says And back at his studio in the heart of Miami ™s Little Haiti neighborhood Duval-Carrié's other contributions are visible He co-founded the Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance to support Haitian art and culture Organizing cultural events I mean that ™s my passion he says And as soon as we got here we founded the Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance and we ™ve been in existence practically as long as I ™ve been here Duval-Carrié hopes people will continue to pay attention to Haiti beyond the catastrophes it has suffered It really didn ™t have to take 300 000 deaths for everybody to focus their lights on Haiti he notes And as long as he ™s producing art it will be hard not to take notice VOA News http //www voanews com/english/news/americas/For-Haitian-Artist-Edouard-Duval-Carrie-Home-is-Where-the-Heart-is-133689098 html Alex Villarreal <nowiki> </nowiki> Miami 2011-11 PD-USGov-VOA Edouard Duval-Carrié | ||||
