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Currents 40: Widline Cadet
Exhibition Tour: Wednesday, August 5 | 12:30 – 1:30P
Milwaukee Art Museum | Herzfeld Center for Photography and Media Arts
CoPA is pleased to be able to offer a private tour of Currents 40: Widline Cadet. This docent-led tour explores the work of Hatian-born artist, Widline Cadet.
Currents 40: Widline Cadet marks the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States and the highly anticipated full presentation of her ambitious, nearly decade-long project Seremoni Disparisyon (Ritual [Dis]Appearance). Rooted in photography and expanded through video, family snapshots, and installation, Cadet’s work explores Black diasporic life through her lived experience of emigrating to the United States, pushing the boundaries of contemporary image-making.
Cadet began photographing her extended family to address a scarcity of ancestral images and the physical distance from her home country. As access to her family in Haiti became increasingly limited, she turned the camera toward herself and those around her, creating what she describes as a living archive. Across the exhibition, her works consider migration, memory, and belonging through meticulous staging, autobiographical details, and visual strategies such as doubling and repetition.
Presented as part of the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Currents series, its platform for new ideas in contemporary art, Currents 40: Widline Cadet highlights an artist shaping today’s conversations in art and culture through innovative approaches to photography and media.
Widline Cadet (b. 1992, Pétion-Ville, Ayiti) earned her MFA from Syracuse University after completing her BA in studio art from the City College of New York. Her work has been exhibited and published widely and resides in numerous private and public collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; and Milwaukee Art Museum.
See more about the exhibition at mam.org
CoPA has a minimum of ten people required for this tour. If we do not get at least ten people signed up by noon on Friday July 23rd, we will need to cancel this event. Museum members get in free. Non-museum members can sign up for discounted tickets for $20 until that time. (the same as the standard senior rate). CoPA members and guests are welcome to attend this gallery tour. There is a maximum of 20 people allowed on the tour. This form will stay open until that number is reached.
