While the world is burning outside the ephemeral veneer of this week, artists at NADA, Untitled, and Ink Miami explore intimacy, femininity, and Latinidad.
The affordable artists’ studio building in Little Haiti, founded in 2008, will be demolished to make way for new developments in the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.
You are surrounded by videos of what it would be like to be on top of the building, she says. It is supposed to take you away.
The projections which videographer Pedro Wazzan shot from above at twilight, using a camera on a drone document Tommerup s process: how she liberates her canvases before they enter into a gallery space. For the first time, I was able to document pulling up all of the work onto the roof of the building and then, consequently, tossing the work down, she says. “Why would I want to toss the canvas? The idea was to expose the work to the natural element of the time of the show: dusk. Floating it through the air, and the canvas being exposed to the night sky.