Haiti Through Two Eyes

Overview

The Green School Gallery hosts Haiti Through Two Eyes, the inaugural exhibition
of the Witness: Global Borderless Caribbean Initiative. Curated by photojournalist
Carl-Philippe Just, 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 of art on the wall evoke the unflinching internal strength and cyclical
external devastation of this first Black Republic through the eyes of these two world-
renown 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 Just 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 and Democracy and the Dorothea Green Lecture Series.