From March 11th to 31st, 2022, at Miami International Fine Arts, fifteen Miami-based artists who self-identified as men gathered to honor women in the exhibition “Perception,” visualizing their narratives that reflected an analogy of the feminine in attempting to place themself in their shoes. This visualization represents how society constructs ‘the woman.’
This exhibition was seeking to expand the concept of art, inside and outside each space. It reduced its formality without interrupting each artist’s values. A collective work in commemoration of women where the same line of concepts applied in different techniques converge, emphasizing empathetic proposals of a cognitive nature so that the individuality of each viewer discovers the meaning intuitively.
Women are a symbol of supreme perfection. They are connected by cords that refer to synchronized stages between origin and evolution; this makes us reflect on the consequences if they were absent. There would be a natural imbalance disconnecting the destiny between nature and the beauty of the universe.
Since the beginning of time, offspring have been rooted in the “ovum as a universal principle of life,” the fundamental nucleus for the continuity of the species on earth, Salas tells us, unveiling the prelude to read this proposal. Possibly resorting to the female gamete as a central stimulus in which imaginary threads unfold, supporting divided realities, where life topics happen disorderly.
Similarly, KAL’s work metaphorically is “throwing a hook and clinging to moments of introspection, emotions with hints of nostalgia, desires, putting together a reality of their own to get in touch with themselves.” In that same context, Figueroa appropriates the imaginative space, breaking down the barriers of stability and presenting us with levels of “everyday modern life” through the advances where humanity has been surpassed.
While it is true that Muci’s work has become a “close observation and participation of the subject regardless of its form.” It is necessary to highlight that the artists’ perception in this exhibition has resulted in two scenarios where emotions are the protagonists, emphasized in the work of Martínez and his inner world.
This exhibition expanded the concept of art, inside and outside each space. It reduced its formality without interrupting each artist’s value to the trade. Hence, the work of Cañas narrates, as a result, the creation of questions, motivating us to generate critical thoughts.
The objective? Break the mold. Caridad did it with his performance video, making the legacy of his pre-Columbian heritage with his disturbing protest about gender inequality. He expresses his frustrations in the face of social injustice, alleging that “some people pretend they don’t see or hear if something doesn’t affect them directly, so they ignore it. Somethings Shouldn’t Be Covered Up!”
The climax turned out to be a collective work in commemoration of women where the same line of concepts applied in different techniques converge, emphasizing empathetic proposals of a cognitive nature so that the individuality of each viewer discovers the meaning intuitively.
Yonyi Gutierrez | Curator
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Yonyi Gutiérrez (he/him/his) was born in Venezuela and lives and works in Miami. Gutierrez has developed and collaborated in projects in Czech Republic, México, Colombia, Perú, Chile, Venezuela and USA within cultural institutions as the Jacobo Borges Museum, Juan Rulfo Cultural Complex, Artefactus Cultural Project, Futurama Cultural Complex, and Ateneo the Caracas, Teatrex, Teatro Municipal Caracas, and Teatro Nacional de Caracas. Yonyi has been awarded as best performer artist in Caracas, Santiago de Chile, and was part of the Best Puppet show in Prague in 2009. Gutiérrez holds a BFA from The National Experimental University of the Arts (UNEARTE) and the César Rengifo National School of Performing Arts. He has been an artistic professor at the Fundación del Niño de Caracas amoung others.
ABOUT MIFA
MIFA opened its doors in September 2019 as a collaboration between Teresa Jessurum Uribe, Elkin Canas, Milixa Morón, and Carlos Martínez León with the support of Gilberto Uribe, president of CTP Costex, intending to contribute to the development of culture through the launch of a space that promotes Latin American art in South Florida. This art space’s opening represents a starting point for the penetration of art trends in the Miami market, fostering an understanding of influential Latin American art of our time through excellence, awareness, exploration, and stimulation of thought criticism and dialogue in our community.
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