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去往小海地,从想象中的迈阿密往东北走上16公里,有一家由艺术家运营,混合当代和南佛罗里达地方艺术的商业画廊“古琦威登”。门脸藏在众多“待租”招牌之中,周围是教堂、烤肉店和出售各类移民生活必需品的杂货店——从SIM卡到祭祀用的活鸡一应俱全。即使在迈阿密这样年轻的城市,小海地也算新街区。它原本是一片柠檬园,因为城市扩张和柑橘溃疡病暴发,柠檬种植园也变成了柠檬城。八十年代中期,逃出让·克洛德·杜瓦利独裁政府的海地
Go to Little Haiti, 16 kilometers north-east of Miami, and imagine there’s a commercial gallery “Gucci Vuitton” run by artists that mix contemporary and South Florida local art. The face is hidden in numerous “for rent” signboards, surrounded by churches, barbecue shops and grocery stores selling a wide range of immigrants’ necessities - ranging from SIM cards to sacrificial live chickens. Even in a young city like Miami, Little Haiti counts as a new neighborhood. It was originally a lemon garden, lemon city plantation has become lemon city because of urban expansion and citrus canker outbreak. In the mid-eighties, Haiti escaped from the dictatorial government of Jean Claude Duvalle