Throughout his practice, Doucet explores his transnational identity as a Haitian immigrant through drawing, printmaking, and ceramics. With Opia (Under the Stars, Black Girl’s Dream), the artist works in the digital realm for the first time with his intervention on the facade of the InterContinental Miami. His activation involves using the hotel’s nineteen-story “digital canvas” to reimagine an existing physical work from Water Grieves, an ongoing series that examines the realities of climate gentrification, migration, and displacement within South Florida's Black diaspora. Towering over the waters of Biscayne Bay near the Port of Miami, the work’s oceanside context aligns closely with the artist's thematic interests in sea-level rise, environmental degradation, and the dislocation of African descendants from their homelands.

Morel Doucet received his B.F.A. at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions including the Havana Biennial; the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, Miami; the National Council on Education for Ceramic Arts, Pittsburgh; American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona; Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami; Flaten Art Museum; St. Olaf College; São Tomé et Príncipe; Haitian Heritage Museum, Miami; and the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami.

About Fringe Projects

Fringe Projects is an experimental public art commissioning agency that offers artists the opportunity to realize site-determined projects in the public realm at sites they choose for flexible durations. Investigating downtown Miami’s less conventional spaces with context-specific interventions, installations, and performances, Fringe Projects makes extreme efforts to privilege artists ideas and engage in a commissioning process that supports experimentation, field-work, and in-depth research of sites and contexts.

Fringe Projects was inaugurated in 2012 as a component Downtown Art Days produced by the Miami Downtown Development Authority, and established a partnership with Miami Dade-County Art in Pubic Places, and with the support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation through the Knight Arts Challenge, The Wavemaker Grants Program in conjunction with the Andy Warhol Foundation, and others.