Didier William: Things Like This Don’t Happen Here
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May 6, 2023 - June 17, 2023
James Fuentes
5015 Melrose Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90038
5015 Melrose Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90038
https://jamesfuentes.com/exhibitions/things-like-this-don-t-happen-here
For the debut exhibition of the gallery’s West Coast outpost, Didier William merges painting and printmaking in one ethereal body of work. Scenic underwater tableaus depict a world unconstrained by gravity. Motifs of caves and water nod to memories of the artist’s home country of Haiti, positioning the viewer somewhere between past and present, reality and mythology. This tension and dichotomy permeates the show, including the title: a euphemism reflecting life as we wish to see it, and as it is.