The footage I’ve captured mirrors the imagery I often come across as a Haitian living in Miami: chickens roaming the streets of Little Haiti, the soft movement of waves drifting from Miami’s shores into the Caribbean Sea, and portraits of historical figures from Little Haiti and Haiti itself. These spaces remind me of my connection to home.
The archival material—something I’ve engaged with more intentionally over the past couple of years—has offered me glimpses of the island. It has become a visual language through which I’ve been able to imagine and understand Ayiti, even from afar. Together, these videos reflect a convergence: of past and present, of memory and imagination, of the seen and the unseen. It represents the enduring connection between Haiti and Miami—how one informs, shapes, and mirrors the other.
Tabitha Cherubin is a Haitian-American artist born and based in Miami, Florida, whose work spans the mediums of painting, photography, and film. Rooted in personal memory as well as cultural and familial inheritance, her practice explores how diasporic identity moves beyond nostalgia to imagine new futures. She often considers her work as a visual process of self-exploration, engaging with concepts of placemaking, the oppositional gaze, and relation while drawing on the rich cultural intersections that define Miami. Cherubin earned a BFA in Visual Art Studies and Sociology from the University of Florida. Her work was most recently exhibited in Intracoastal Connections at Oolite Arts (2023) and featured in Coming of Age in 2020, published by New York Times editor Katherine Schulten (2022). She has previously worked with institutions such as Pérez Art Museum Miami, The Bass Museum of Art, and Mindy Solomon Gallery, before most recently shifting focus to her studio practice.