For Frieze Los Angeles, Nazarian / Curcio is proud to present a solo booth by Widline Cadet, a Los Angeles-based artist and Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography at UCLA. This presentation serves as a precursor to Cadet’s solo exhibition at the gallery in Winter 2025.
Building upon her 2021 participation in the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Artist-in-Residence program and her subsequent exhibition at MoMA PS1, Cadet shares photographs and videos that delve into intergenerational memory, selfhood, and erasure within the Haitian diasporic experience.
For her presentation in the Focus Section of Frieze, Cadet has created a new series of photographs made in Los Angeles––some featuring video and sculptural components. Employing various signifiers, such as local flora, architectural elements, and the unique landscapes of this region, Cadet creates a visual connection between her birth country of Haiti and her current home in Los Angeles.
Throughout her practice, Cadet draws inspiration from her memories, Haitian culture, folklore, and an archive of family photographs and videos to create speculative images that traverse specific moments in time and geographic locations. Within these works, Cadet explores inherited cultural beliefs and the ways that Black diasporic life continues to inform and shape her lived experiences.
Learn more about Widline's practice and this new body of work via Frieze's Artist Spotlight Video on Widline Cadet:
https://www.frieze.com/video/focus-widline-cadets-los-angeles