Tuesday, November 29th from 7 – 9pm Locust Projects invites you to meet the artists and curators at the reception during Miami Art Week for their last three exhibitions in Locust Projects’ Design District space before they move to Little River.
ABOUT THE SHOWS:
Main Gallery: ule ole allez, a major new installation by Ecuador-born/New York City–based artist Ronny Quevedo created in collaboration with local futsal (aka football) players. The work draws parallels between movement in sports activities and migration over local and international borders and the ever-changing rules immigrants face.
Project Room: Room for the Living/Room for the Dead, a new installation by Miami-based artist T. Eliott Mansa. The artist will build an immersive recreation of a room referencing the architecture of sunken ‘living rooms’, popular in the 1970s that children and guests were not allowed to use. Mansa’s assemblage, paintings, and sculptures incorporate found materials in a way that subverts their original intent, reimagining them as apotropaic objects. His work incorporates the aesthetic of amalgamation found in grassroot roadside memorials, visionary Southern vernacular sculpture, and the West African practices of nkisi nkondi and bocio sculpture making. Mansa’s intention is to trigger the radical imagination of viewers, encouraging them to subvert the status quo and find socio-political agency in their own communities.
Screening Room: Portals of Introspection, a selection of video works guest curated by Donnamarie Baptiste featuring works by Mikey Please, Duke Riley and Paul Ward.
“Often used to refer to internal self-awareness, or looking inward, the word introspection evokes varying thoughts and feelings among individuals depending on their experiences and emotions. The selected films reveal different journeys of introspection used to accomplish a desired outcome. When one is truly passionate, what seems complicated can become simple, and the mundane can become extraordinary. Highlighting connections between humans and our environment, artistic desire and how we navigate through life each day, this collection of films delves deeply to understand our engagement and place in the world.”
–Donnamarie Baptiste, guest curator