Edouard Duval-Carrié

Lost at Sea

Edouard Duval-Carrié was born in Port-au-Prince, and though his family immigrated to Puerto Rico while he was a child, he maintains cultural ties to his homeland. This work from his Imagined Landscapes series harkens back to nineteenth century historical paintings of the Caribbean he remembers seeing in museums growing up.

The paintings of Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church, and Martin Johnson Heade depicted romanticized landscapes and uninhabited worlds.

Lost at Sea challenges these historic portrayals of landscape that center colonial expansionism by reimagining these spaces with cultural identity at the forefront. Lost at Sea acknowledges the perpetuation of problematic Western expansion narratives and invites viewers to search for new understandings through their own experience and that of the artist.