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Widline Cadet: How Far is Soon?

Nazarian / Curcio, 616 North La Brea Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles
Through May 10

Through photography, video, ceramics, and sound, Widline Cadet traces threads of migration, family, memory, and identity. Shifting genres between portraiture, landscape, still life, and interiors, Cadet reflects on the connections and dislocations between the self and others, what we lose and what we retain as we move through life. She focuses specifically on her family, who immigrated from Haiti to the US, and how the ties that bind us fray over time and distance. In addition to her photographic work, this exhibition includes ceramic aloe plants from which unrelated flowers bloom, manifestations of continual transformation.

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