Writing about the work on view, Didier William, selected by Doron Langberg, states, ‘My husband and I moved into our current home during the month of November. The warm hues of fall had begun colouring our block in luscious reds, yellows, and oranges. There was a large bush in front of our house that was glowing with bright red leaves. At the time we were the only queer couple on the block. Our friends and family of course were eager to come see our new home and we’d playfully tell them to look for the house with the flaming red bush. This is the red bush with blue tips that the two bodies are standing in front of. Above them are the eaves of our home. The eaves are the part of a roof that meets or overhangs the walls of usually residential buildings. For me, this situates the viewers perhaps in our yard or on our porch. The two bodies are standing on top of a crowd of heads. Here the literal ground on which they stand is made of bodies as well. The bodies of ancestors who were considered property themselves and not able to own property, perhaps the bodies of curious neighbours eager to meet the black gay people who just moved into the predominantly white suburban neighbourhood, or perhaps even the bodies of the previous homeowners. As with most of my work, in this painting, the ground on which the narrative event takes place is never neutral.’

Didier William is originally from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He earned an BFA in painting from The Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University School of Art. His work has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of Art, The Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, The Museum at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, The Carnegie Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and The Figge Museum Art Museum. He is represented by James Fuentes Gallery in New York and M+B Gallery in Los Angeles. William was an artist-in-residence at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation in Brooklyn, NY, a 2018 recipient of the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a 2020 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grants. He has taught at several institutions including Yale School of Art, Vassar College, Columbia University, UPenn, and SUNY Purchase. He is currently Assistant Professor of Expanded Print at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.