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Untitled Art Fair: The sea as the protagonist
09December
EventsArt Basel Miami

Untitled Art Fair: The sea as the protagonist

The sea, that immense blue that surrounds us, that transmits silence and hides so many secrets even for Man, the carpet that covers much of the Earth with the sacred liquid that human beings know so little, that goes to the cosmos before to investigate the depths of the common house, that of so many stories ... occupies a prominent place at the Untitled Art fair in Miami Beach.

The forum, with more than 13 years of foundation, is an immense white tent that breathes in the sand in the South of Miami Beach, at the height of 11th, 10th and 9th streets, between Ocean Drive and the Sea. Although in this edition, physically it has worked on the quality of the exhibition center, its stands are elegant and well organized, what is exposed there does not quite catch the viewer. You have to walk to find the work that seduces us with its artistic claws. And it appeared, precisely on one of the terraces that overlook the sea ...

This is one of the two proposals brought here by the Clark Gallery (San Francisco, United States). It is undoubtedly the most attractive space where more than 120 galleries from Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia and the United States meet. There, with the sea in the background, gathered a set of 9 television screens decorated with gold-colored wooden frames, which reproduce a video installation with 11-minute sound that reproduces the sea and its migration stories - which flood the orb in these times with that global displacement-, titled Flight (Escape) 2019.

 

Untitled Art Fair: The sea as the protagonist

 

 

Untitled Art Fair: The sea as the protagonist

 

 

Interesting proposal that is part of the environment brought here by the American artists Deborah Oropallo and Andy Rappaport, who add to their original saying, through images, problems as pressing today as climate change, the persecution to which these migrant human beings are subjected, and the regional conflicts that are generated. There is in this symbolic piece a reflection of those men and women who are refugee, emigrant, asylum-seekers, calling this sad experience of human displacement an Escape that is nothing more than the humanitarian tragedy to survive ...

Precisely at the stand occupied by the gallery in Untitled Art, one of the most attractive pieces seen here, belonging to the Filipino artist, nationalized American, Stephanie Syjuco, is exhibited. In this installation entitled The visible invisible in Disrupting Craft, made in 2018, explores ideas about citizenship and its different stories, criticizes some issues of this problem that today reaches many countries of the world. In this way she explores how these power systems depend on various forms of intervention and manipulation to achieve their objectives.

 

Untitled Art Fair: The sea as the protagonist

 

In this project, she offers clues to her most recent works related to her research on how photography and other images based on technology, question power structures. This recent project provokes debate about citizenship and what it means to be an American ...

There is no doubt, art when it is well on its way, looks at the man and his problems and helps with his reflection coming from the deepest of feelings to be better. A beautiful gift of this Art Week in this city, where between forms and colors, the Man and the Sea (of problems) that chase him everywhere are not forgotten and highlighted, paraphrasing the title of an important Ernest Hemingway novel ...

On the cover: Work Flight