WIDLINE CADET, SEREMONI DISPARISYON (RITUAL [DIS]APPEARANCE), 2017-ONGOING
“Widline Cadet’s photographs entangle the past with the present as she uses the medium to communicate the often intangible feeling of being an immigrant.
She explores themes of race, memory, erasure, migration, immigration, and her Haitian cultural identity from within the United States by staging family photographs within more contemporary photographs that reflect on her life as a child. In doing so, she blurs time and space as a means of building an archive of her family history.“ - Studio Museum of Harlem
“In Seremoni Disparisyon (Ritual [Dis]Appearance) (2017–ongoing), she turns the camera on herself, exploring notions of visibility and Black feminine interiority. Throughout both series, Cadet unpicks ideas of belonging, multiplicity and the fragility of memory. “The longer I live in the US, the more I feel like I have disappeared into another me,” Cadet shares. “I’m interested in exploring all of these versions of myself. Thinking about how I can picture home in Haiti when I don’t have access to it, or how I can access myself when I don’t have all of the information, which has added to me being the person I am.” - British Journal of Photography