Exhibition

Poetics of Relation

Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL, United States
29 May 2015 - 18 Oct 2015

Poetics of Relation

Tony Capellán, Mar Caribe (detail), 1996 Installation view Pérez Art Museum Miami. Plastic and rubber sandals with barbed wire. Collection Museo de Arte Moderno de la República Dominicana. Photo: Oriol Tarridas

Pérez Art Museum presents the group exhibition Poetics of Relation. Inspired by the writings of author and philosopher Édouard Glissant (1928 – 2011), this exhibition responds to Miami as a site defined culturally by its diasporic communities and it looks to place these local dynamics in dialogue with more distant contexts that share similar histories.

Poetics of Relation explores shifts in the sensibilities and global outlook of artists whose work engages the historical legacy of trauma caused by colonialism and migration. By pursuing Glissant’s logic of displacing the singularity of nationality, language and ethnicity, in exchange for adopting multiple rooted identities, the works displayed in the exhibition will engage this vision of a diverse and transient world of migrant subjects. The artists included in this project will offer complex narratives informed by historical experience, illuminating the role of place and location as central to the conception of itinerant identity.

With: Hurvin Anderson, Yto Barrada, Zarina Bhimji, Tony Capellán, Ledelle Moe, Xaviera Simmons

 

www.pamm.org

 


All content © 2024 Contemporary And. All Rights Reserved. Website by SHIFT