From Venice with Love: Edouard Duval Carrié Retrospective
Monday, 08/24/2026-10/31/2026, 08:00 am-08:00 pm
The Betsy Hotel
1440 Ocean Drive,
Miami Beach, Florida, 33139
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Cost: Free
“From Venice with Love” is a monumental retrospective celebrating master contemporary artist Edouard Duval-Carrié, arriving in Miami fresh off his acclaimed participation in the 61st Venice Biennale. Curated by Carl Philippe Juste, the exhibition invites audiences into Duval-Carrié’s world of migration and memory—where Vodou symbolism becomes both language and lens—directly challenging and rewriting dominant narratives of the Caribbean.
From August 1 through November 15, 2026, the project becomes an immersive visual takeover of The Betsy: Duval-Carrié’s works will fill The Betsy Gallery, while nightly, large-scale video art will map onto the iconic Betsy ORB throughout August. Inside the hotel, BBar will glow with 26 essence-filled light boxes by Duval-Carrié—transforming the space into a gathering point and a luminous backdrop for community conversations, convening, and celebrations.
Grounded in civic engagement, “From Venice with Love” extends well beyond a single venue. Through free public programming, curated academic salons, and live performances, it bridges communities across Miami Beach (including the Lummus Park Promenade Series) and Little Haiti—creating a true citywide footprint that meets audiences where they are.
At the heart of the project is the power of partnership. Produced collaboratively by an alliance of two current grantees of the Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation CreARTE program, this initiative brings together The Betsy Writers Room and FIU’s Public Humanities Program—uniting organizational strengths and inviting the extended community to celebrate one of Miami’s finest artists.
And while the visual work anchors the experience, the project ultimately functions as an interdisciplinary cultural hub—a living laboratory for the African and Caribbean Diaspora. It will weave together an elite roster of interdisciplinary talent through residencies, performances, and collaborations, expanding the exhibition into a dynamic, collective act of cultural memory-making.
ABOUT KEY PROGRAMMING PARTNERS
The Betsy – South Beach is a luxury, arts-focused boutique hotel on Ocean Drive that functions as a vibrant cultural foundation under its core philosophy, “There’s no commerce without community.” Celebrated worldwide for its distinctive brand and widely admired for its commitment to global culture, the property is a proud recipient of a coveted Michelin Key. The hotel seamlessly embeds philanthropy, literature, and visual arts into the guest experience, most notably through The Betsy Orb, a glowing skybridge that serves as a permanent public art canvas. Guests and visitors can experience museum-quality, rotating photography exhibitions throughout the corridors, free live jazz and classical performances at least nine times a week. Deeply committed to the written word, the hotel also hosts a dedicated Writer’s Room residency program that provides a working studio for visiting authors, poets, and artists from across the globe to create and engage with the local community. The Betsy is located on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach, Florida. thebetsyhotel.com
Public Humanities Lab-Florida International University fosters multidisciplinary research, teaching and community co-creation of projects and initiatives that encourage us to build a more equitable and just community and world. We pledge to co-create, collaborate and share with all. Rebecca Friedman is founding director of the FIU Public Humanities Lab.
iWitness: IPC Institute for Visual Journalism engages visual story(re)telling as a means of pursuing knowledge and truth-telling within our evolving – and vulnerable – democracy. iWitness is a pioneering ideas hub that houses world-class visual story(re)tellers, writers and researchers to investigate challenges across Latin America, the Caribbean, and its Global Diasporas. Carl Philip Juste is founder and director of IPC.
Perez CreARTE: Established by The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation in partnership with The Miami Foundation, the Pérez CreARTE Grants Program aims to develop Greater Miami into a world-class urban center by fostering a vibrant, equitable, and culturally engaging arts community. The program name—a blend of the Spanish phrase crear arte (to create art)—reflects its mission to provide capital and vital resources to local visual arts organizations.
LIST OF FUNDING PARTNERS
The Betsy Hotel and Plutzik Goldwasser Family Foundation, The Betsy Community Fund at The Miami Foundation, CreARTE – Jorge Perez Family Foundation, Public Humanities Lab – Florida International University, City of Miami Beach, Ocean Drive Association Promenade Music Series, GMCVB Art of Black Miami, Miami Beach Urban Studios – Florida International University, Iris Photo Collective, Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator
