Elisa Benedetti: “A Fresh Story to Rewrite” at the MPhO
“Elisa Benedetti: A Fresh Story to Rewrite”, presents the work developed by the Venezuelan photographer during her residency at the Miami Photographic Observatory (MPhO), a project centered on the women of Little Havana as bearers of memory, lived experience, and belonging.
Grounded in a practice shaped by proximity and reciprocity, Benedetti creates portraits in workplaces and within the homes of her participants, where domestic space acquires depth as both a cultural landscape and an extension of the lives it shelters. Rather than documenting a community, the artist constructs, together with her subjects, a shared space of representation in which the image emerges through relationship. The exhibition also incorporates a questionnaire conceived by the artist and completed by those women, adding a layer of self-representation that expands the portrait into a more dialogical register. In parallel, a series of Polaroids introduces an immediate documentation of the neighborhood, forming an affective cartography that complements the project as a whole. Moving between portraiture, archive, and social observation, A Fresh Story to Rewrite offers an intimate and collective reading of Little Havana, positioning its women as active protagonists in the construction and rewriting of their own stories.
This exhibition was made possible with the support of Art Connection Foundation and the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor, and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners.
Elisa Benedetti: A Fresh Story to Rewrite
April 24th, 2026 | Miami Photographic Observatory (MPhO)
The Tower Art Space | 1444 SW 7th Street, Miami, FL. 33135
