Saturday, March 8th from 10am – 12noon join MDC Hialeah for an opening brunch showcasing Vulnerable Maps, a unique and thought-provoking exhibition featuring the work of E. Martin Fierro and J.M. Pozo. The exhibition will open on March 8th and run through March 24th. Free & Open to the Public / RSVP HERE.
The Miami Dade College Hialeah Campus Art Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Vulnerable Maps (2025), featuring works by E. Martin Fierro (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, 1965) and J.M. Pozo (Holguín, Cuba, 1967). This exhibition, supported and coordinated with the (CCE Miami) Centro Cultural Español, includes recent works in painting, drawing, and installation, highlighting the pictorial and discursive affinities shared by these artists. The exhibition will be part of the program of exhibitions and cultural art events for the XI International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art, which will take place in Miami from March 6 to 29.
In Vulnerable Maps, E. Martin Fierro and J.M. Pozo reflect on history, memory, and recollection, exploring their relationship with the concepts of borders, frontiers, and limits, approached with a sensitivity that plays with the personal biography of each artist.
Curated by Dennys Matos and directed by Noor Blazekovic, Vulnerable Maps emphasizes how the works of both Martin Fierro and Pozo generate imagery through the overlapping of different layers of content. Décollage, as a break or tear that deepens the thickness of one pictorial image over another, is an important reference in their respective works. But also, part of their expressive repertoire are the hybridizations between painting and photography, revealing transparencies of materials and essential objects in the construction of meaning. Their discourse focuses on the relationship between history and memory, reinterpreting the displacements that imply, in the circumstances of the global village, concepts such as borders, frontiers, limits, and the sociocultural resonance of their representation in the languages of contemporary art.