Co-Curated by Derrick Adams and Luisa Múnera
October 6-December 10, 2022
YoungArts Gallery, Photographed by Jason Koerner 
Miami native Mark Fleuridor’s artistic practice is shaped by his continued exploration of his personal history contextualized by his Haitian background. Inspired by both ancestral lineage and nature in the subtropics, Fleuridor uses photography to create layered reconstructions of family, friends, home spaces and tropical plants that manifest into entirely new environments.
Fleuridor’s earlier bodies of work are centered on a commanding central figure often engulfed in patterns reminiscent of lush flora. His latest body of work exhibits a clear progression of his focus on nature, departing from dominant figurative elements to arrive at abstract interpretations of the sun, destruction, and rebirth.
There is an underlying theme shared in Fleuridor’s figurative portraits and his boundless natural environments: the cycles of life. The human life cycle is investigated through deep considerations of generational connectivity, family and their respective lived experiences, and brought to life across mediums such as quilt-making, collages, and watercolors. This is underlined with the connected narrative of the cycles of the natural world and ultimately creates work that cohesively emerges out of the juxtaposition of figuration and abstraction.
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