About the artists

Caroline Douville, also known as Erzulie, is an emerging artist and curator based in Montreal, Canada. She holds a BFA from Concordia University and is currently completing a certificate in museology at Université du Québec à Montréal. Her artistic practice focuses on painting, drawing and installation. Douville has exhibited in Canada and abroad, including at the Clark Centre in Montreal (2022), Afternoon projects in Vancouver (2022) and New Image Art in Los Angeles (2022). From a second- generation Haitian diaspora background, she researches Haitian culture and its influence on local and global popular culture. She attempts to demystify the cognitive processes by which members of the diaspora interrogate their distant identity and how they connect it to their locality. More specifically, how the internet has developed many tools that facilitate this research, provides access to a variety of content and how technologies have an influence on our visual perception in everyday life. Meanwhile, she explores the tension between fiction and reality. She is interested in how certain images, whether based on fiction or from historical archives, can become entangled in a knot that constructs our understanding of contemporary phenomena and contributes to a collective imagination.

Esteban Raheem Abdul Raheem Samayoa (b.1994 Sacramento Ca) is a self-taught Mexican, Guatemalan Oakland-based artist. His works invoke a sense of nostalgia that captures the shared life between himself and his community through rich black-and-white charcoal drawings. The softness of his work is a contradiction of a harsher world amongst black and brown communities in America. The eye focuses on the beauty in survival and the objects of cultural importance. Works of color, installation, and ceramic pieces are also key for creating Samayoa’s vision.

Ahmad George is a painter and multimedia artist from Memphis, TN. They’ve shown at NADA Miami as well as national and international group and solo exhibitions. Through their work, they explore the liminal space between reality, mythology, folklore, and self. Their world-building thins the veil of this world by mixing imagery of the American South (mostly scenes from Tennessee and Mississippi) with local and sourced myths from different parts of the world. Oftentimes, they use people from their own life to be the protagonists of these narratives. Major themes they explore in their paintings currently include generational history, transformation, consequence, and spiritual alchemy.