Caroline Douville is a multidisciplinary artist based in Montréal and Berlin. From a second-generation Haitian diaspora background, she researches afro-descendant 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, Douville is interested in how the internet can act as a tool to facilitate this research by providing access to a vast range of content. Through a focus on painting and installation, her work presents a tension between fiction and reality by interrogating how technology influences our visual perception in everyday life. Douville has exhibited in Canada and abroad, including at the Clark Centre and Espace Maurice in Montréal, Afternoon projects in Vancouver, New Image Art and Good Mother Gallery and Guerrero Gallery in Los Angeles.
Photo credit : Cléo Sjölander