Where Hope for Visual Artist Widline Cadet Resides
Widline Cadet’s oeuvre demands the kind of reverential looking one engages in when moving through a family photo album scaled to fit into the palms of two hands. Yet the photographic works and arrangements for which the artist has become known take the intimacy of family keepsakes and expands it to the large-scale walls of a gallery space. With Sé Sou Ou Mwen Mété Espwa m #1 (I Put All My Hopes On You #1) as its singular focus, this essay demonstrates a constellation of ideas that leads readers toward beginning possibilities for framing Cadet’s work and its distinct characteristics.