PAST EXHIBITIONS
The Family of the Artist
Curated by Aluna Curatorial Collective
“The first cry of a newborn baby in Chicago or Zamboanga, in Amsterdam or Rangoon, has the same pitch and the same intensity; each one says, ‘I am! I have arrived! I belong! I am a member of the Family!”
Revisiting that foundational sense of belonging, Aluna Curatorial Collective invited twenty-three artists to transform the first floor of the Tower Hotel with works inspired by their own families. Beyond the iconic history of familial bonds in artistic creation—from Dürer’s Praying Hands to Picasso’s Paul as Harlequin, or Anguissola’s The Chess Game and Carrie Mae Weems’s Family Pictures and Stories (…).
Cosmic Tapestries
Kiu-Pa Collective
Curated by Adriana Herrera
MIFA (Miami International Fine Arts)
In 1965, a group of women embarked on a collective journey of discovery to the South American territory that holds the continent’s most extensive remnants of rock art: Venezuela. With a shared vision and anonymity, they began creating handwoven tapestries with the latch-hook technique, and virgin wools, carefully transferring sacred figures from ancient Indigenous petroglyphs onto hemp.
Exodus: Alternate Documents (1994-2024)
Willy Castellanos
Curated by Adriana Herrera
Fotofocus Biennial Backstories, Cincinnati, OH. S
His creative exercise assumes the past as an open narrative that challenges the limits of each documentary image, constructing a chronicle capable of restructuring itself as it absorbs (through the years) other testimonial records—provided by the protagonists of the Exodus: the Rafters).His body of work reaffirms Walter Benjamin appreciation: “ History is the subject of a structure whose site is not homogeneous, empty time, but time filled (…)
The Sacred and The Profame
Curated by Adriana Herrera
Nov. 7th/2024 | MIFA (Miami International Fine Arts)
The exhibition’s title draws from the revealing book, Le sacré et le profane, written by the great historian of religions Mircea Eliade in 1957. That was also the year Sputnik 1 was launched during the height of the Cold War, amidst the expansion of atheism and the replacement of ancient religions with the cult of personality of leaders who created Earthly hells.
No One Is an Island: Fernanda Froes and Bella Cardim
Curated by Adriana Herrera
Nov. 9th/2023 | MIFA (Miami International Fine Arts)
The connection between intimate life and art—in that sequence —can be profoundly revealing, precisely because “no one is an island.” Personal experience, especially when approached with the courage to expose unsettling themes, holds the potential to mirror the hidden realms, often unspeakable, of the social universe in which we navigate (…)
