Thrilled to see this extraordinary work by Paul Gardère 🇭🇹❤️ newly installed at
@icamiami following its recent acquisition into the museum’s permanent collection.
Included in “Spirit-Matter”, curated by
@donna_honarpisheh , the presentation thoughtfully situates Gardère’s practice within broader conversations around materiality, spirituality, memory, and transformation.
Combining painting and mixed media assemblage, “Hunger” unfolds through the physical structure of a large wooden cabinet layered with mud, pigment, glitter, clay, and found materials. Gardère transformed vernacular forms into deeply personal visual and spiritual architectures that continue to feel profoundly singular, collapsing distinctions between the sacred and terrestrial, the intimate and the cosmic.
As conversations around Haitian modernisms continue to expand within institutional spaces, it feels especially meaningful to see Gardère’s work so prominently highlighted at ICA Miami, marking an important institutional acquisition for the artist in South Florida.
Grateful to
@magentaplains and the Estate of Paul Gardère (
@paulgarderestudio ) for their ongoing stewardship of the artist’s legacy, and to
@stphsdl for introducing the work to ICA Miami’s Acquisition Committee.
Installation views also feature Ming Fay’s suspended sculptural work “Money Tree Floating Vine 1” (1990s/2025).
Paul Gardère
“Hunger”, 1995
Acrylic, glitter, mud, iron hinge, wood log, and clay sculpture on wood
45 × 36 × 5 in.
Collection of Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
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