Faena Art - Miami Art Week 2022

MIAMI ART WEEK 2022

NOV 29 DEC 4

Art Week 2022 is a testament to our long-lasting commitment to innovative cultural production that places the city of Miami and its community front and center. Furthermore, the Faena Prize for the Arts in Miami attracted some of the most thought-provoking minds of today’s artistic landscape. Their site-specific intervention— alongside Quayola’s video series and Random International’s never-before-seen installation —will be among the highlights of the entire week”.

“This year’s unparalleled programming during Miami

FAENA PRIZE FOR THE ARTS FIRST MIAMI EDITION PRESENTED BY BOMBAY SAPPHIRE MORNING

(2022) Paula

COMMISSIONED BY AORIST

PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FAENA ART EFFETS

(2022) Quayola

PRESENTED BY FAENA ART IN PARTNERSHIP WITH AORIST

de Solminihac HEART OF OKEANOS

Petroc Sesti

CO-COMMISSIONED BY THE REEFLINE, FAENA ART AND CARBONXINC

(2022)

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COMMISSIONED BY THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, IN COLLABORATION WITH THE MIAMI BEACH CONVENTION AND VISITORS AUTHORITY.

PRESENTED BY NO VACANCY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FAENA MIAMI BEACH

(2022)

COMMISSIONED BY THE REEFLINE PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FAENA ART

MORNING GLORY PAULA DE SOLMINIHAC

Founded in 2012 and awarded biennially, the Faena Prize for the Arts recognizes artistic experimentation, encourages post-disciplinary and temporal exploration, and promotes inquiry into the multiple links between art, technology, and design. One of the Americas’ most prestigious art awards, the Faena Prize for the Arts is offered to artists at all stages in their careers to engage in critical reflection on the present moment and its ever-changing nature, with Faena Art awarding the winner a total of $100,000

The first edition of the Faena Prize focused on Argentina, the second on Latin America, and the third was open to the world. The prize is now biennial and international, seeking to generate dialogues across geographical boundaries. Presented for the first time in Miami by Bombay Sapphire, this edition of the Prize called on multidisciplinary artists to imagine site-sensitive works addressing the concept of home, in dialogue with the Faena Beach, and to engage with cultural and urban conditions in the city of Miami.

Times have changed, and concepts like “home” as a feeling of immediate belonging have garnered significant relevance in our lives. Our relationship with the urban environment has become more

meaningful, and with it the sense of belonging that can be activated by public art. What we call “home,” what resembles “home,” what makes us feel “home” defines us physically and emotionally, both as individuals and as a community. We are progressively transitioning from ways of seeing to ways of experiencing and engaging with nature and our immediate surroundings more consciously and in co-existence.

Morning Glory by Paula de Solminihac draws attention to the urgent matter of our plant ecosystem. Created in collaboration with architect Vicente Donoso, the installation takes the form of the Beach Morning Glory, a trailing evergreen vine omnipresent across the beaches of Florida and the world thanks to its floating seawater-resistant seeds. Composed of wooden decks resembling the flowers and leaves of the Beach Morning Glory, De Solminihac’s site-responsive topographic installation invites endless interaction and play for everyone on the beach, with such diverse ability-inclusive activities as playing, resting, watching, walking, and listening.

DIRELIA LAZO Faena Prize Curator

SPECIAL MENTION: PALOMA BOSQUÊ

Faena Art also awards runner-up Paloma Bosquê (Brazil, 1982) with an iteration of her proposal Education by the Stone in the Faena Art Project Room on view in 2023 in recognition of her siteresponsive application for this year’s Faena Prize. Paloma Bosquê’s work unfolds from an investigation of the materiality of bodies in transformation. Her practice revolves around the idea that the material world is a culmination of all matter, including the human. By challenging

the Western definitions of animate and the inanimate, she attempts to reach a dimension beyond language or where things cannot yet be named. By assembling a myriad of materials, Bosquê presents bodies not as isolated entities but as permeable and moving matter, continuously transforming each other, establishing and revoking connections within and beyond the realm of the visible. Bosquê lives and works between São Paulo and Basel.

PRESENTED BY

JURY

Cecilia Alemani (Curator of the 59th Venice Biennale); Alexandre Arrechea (Artist); Caroline Bourgeois (Chief Curator of the Pinault Collection); Ximena Caminos (Cultural placemaker); Chus Martínez (Director Art Institute at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel); and José Roca (Artistic Director 23rd Biennale of Sydney.)

NOMINATING COMMITTEE

The Nominating Committee included: Carla Acevedo-Yates (Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator, MCA Chicago);

Diana Campbell Betancourt (Artistic Director, Dhaka-based Samdani Art Foundation); Juan Canela (Curator-at-large, MAC Panama and Artistic Director, Zsonamaco, Mexico City); Binna Choi (Director of Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, Utrecht, and co-Artistic Director of the 2022 Singapore Biennale); Catalina Lozano (Chief Curator, Artium Museoa, Spain, and co-curator of the Mexican Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2022); Raimundas Malašauskas (Independent Curator); and Maria Elena Ortiz (Curator, The Modern, Fort Worth).

Courtesy of the Artist, Aorist and Faena Art

LIVING ROOM RANDOM INTERNATIONAL

Random International’s never-beforeseen installation continues their exploration of the impact of technological development on the human condition, utilizing Web3 to push the boundaries of immersive and experiential art.

Living Room explores the idea of space as a living being. Visitors are invited to enter a fluctuating architectural domain, in which shifting lights, fog, and sound respond to the audience’s movements in unpredictable ways. As visitors navigate through the installation, their movement inside Living Room is tracked and recorded by complex motion sensors. Every individual’s unique data is visualized and compressed as a looped video, which visitors can collect as an NFT on Aorist ’s marketplace by utilizing their entry ticket’s unique ID. The data gathered will be continually tracked throughout the lifespan of the artwork, creating a visual archive of the installation’s ‘life’ that will be minted as an NFT, making it the first archive of an immersive artwork to be stored on the blockchain. Pablo Rodríguez-Fraile, Founder and Chairman of Aorist, comments, “This body of work sets a new precedent in how the digital and the physical can come together to redefine how visitors experience and collect art. It’s a unique and personalized experience, and truly an evolution in Random International’s work and experiential art as a genre”.

The organism is as mercurial as any human in its thoughts and behavior, sending visitors down pathways that might bend, expand and contract. It may open to invite someone in and then engulf them, or it could shut them out altogether. It could even disappear completely, before suddenly again revealing its presence. Even when invisible, the organism is always there. Living Room is a machine that allows us to choreograph a precise dynamic and sentient architecture around our audiences. The machine uses this fleeting material as the constituting ingredient to give temporary structure and meaning to the space. The spatial boundaries of the environment are permanently redrawn around (and in relation to) the visitor using nothing but water, light and colour (and software). What evolves is an entire environment that ‘sees’ us and entering Living Room invites us to instinctively connect with that environment. Hannes Koch, Founder of Random International, describes, “The installation functions as an architectural organism that uses its materials and components to express itself and interact with those who inhabit it. Living Room creates a living labyrinth that invites visitors to co-create and document their ephemeral experiences, bridging experiential art and blockchain technology for the first time”.

ABOUT AORIST

Aorist is a next-generation cultural institution bridging the digital and physical domains through a global cross-disciplinary program of artist commissions, exhibitions, immersive experiences, and partnerships while offering a climate-forward NFT marketplace for artists creating at the edge of art and technology.

Aorist empowers innovative artistic voices by creating a platform for artists, collectors, cultural leaders, as well as art and tech enthusiasts to navigate the digital art landscape that brings together technology and cultural innovation.

Aorist Leverages web3 technology to offer advanced tools for artists to push the limits of their creative practice while protecting principles of ownership, authenticity, and social capital. Powered by Algorand, the first Pure Proof of Stake Blockchain, and partnering with ClimateTrade to offset carbon emissions, Aorist minimizes environmental impact while promoting blockchain sustainability.

Aorist is founded by Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile, a trailblazer, patron, and innovator in the NFT ecosystem; creative place-maker, cultural strategist, curator Ximena Caminos; and Andrea Bonaceto, an artist and entrepreneur. www.aorist.art

EFFETS DE SOIR QUAYOLA

Landscape painting, classical sculpture and iconography are some of the historical aesthetics that serve as a point of departure for Quayola’s hybrid compositions.

Quayola employs technology as a lens to explore the tensions and equilibriums between seemingly opposing forces: the real and artificial, the figurative and the abstract, the old and the new. Constructing immersive installations, he engages with and re-imagines canonical imagery through contemporary technology. Displayed in the Faena Project Room, the video series Effets de Soir will continue the artists’ ongoing focus on nature, pictorial traditions and new technological apparatuses. The title references the natural phenomena visible at dusk and dawn, when lights and shadows, warm and cold tones, fade into one another — an impression many artists, from Monet to Van Gogh, have attempted to transpose on canvas. At the core of Effets de Soir are ultra-high-resolution photographs of flowers from the lush gardens of Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire, a 10th-century French Castle, shot at night under artificial spotlights. Quayola uses these raw materials to create a computational painting that manifests as audiovisual scores that experiment with evolving compositions and rhythms. The artist offers a distorted reality of the natural world through software specially programmed to decompose and analyze its components, approaching a new form of digitalized Impressionism.

PRESENTED

Installation of Effets de Soir at Château de Chaumont-surLoire, 2022. Courtesy of the Artist, Aorist, and Faena Art.

HEART OF OKEANOS PETROC SESTI

Crafted in CarbonXinc— an experimental material capable of sequestering significant quantities of greenhouse gasses—and seeded with living corals, Heart of Okeanos will become an idyllic haven for marine lifeforms.

ABOUT THE REEFLINE

Founded by Ximena Caminos, the ReefLine is a 7-mile underwater public sculpture park, snorkel trail, and artificial reef which will provide a critical habitat for endangered reef organisms, promoting biodiversity, and enhancing coastal resilience. This series of artist-designed and scientist-informed artificial reefs will demonstrate to the world how tourism, artistic expression, and the creation of critical habitat can be aligned. The ReefLine is a singular investment in civic infrastructure, public art, and environmental protection that will pay dividends over the coming decades and attract ecologically minded tourists and art lovers. www.thereefline.org

Heart of Okeanos is a sculpture of the cardiovascular workings of the Greek god of the ocean. Developed at the intersection of art, science and technology Petroc Sesti has recreated the biology of the heart of a blue whale, the largest heart of the animal kingdom. Sesti conceived of the artwork as a meditative sea beacon inspired by a real blue whale heart specimen, retrieved from a beached blue whale by scientists at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada. The artifact has long been the source of inspiration for Sesti’s dream of returning the Heart of Okeanos to the ocean made from a medium inspired by carbon absorbing life in the ocean.

Petroc has since been developing a carbon sink sculpture medium called CarbonXinc, a first for the art world. Drawing inspiration from roman paleozoic cement and marine organisms like coral that capture carbon to create their structures. Curated by Ximena Caminos and The ReefLine, the Heart of Okeanos will be brought back to life by returning it to the ocean, becoming a living coral reef and teeming with biodiversity. Sesti will work with The ReefLine Marine Biologist Shelby Thomas who will be seeding the sculpture with living corals as part of The ReefLine’s vision of enhancing marine habitats with PH neutral artificial climate change resistant reefs.

Courtesy of the Artist, the Reefline, and Faena Art

Courtesy of the Artist, the Reefline, and Faena Art

PINK MEDITATION BUOYS ANDRÉS REISINGER

Bridging the boundaries of reality and fiction through utopian architectural renderings, interiors, and whimsical furniture, Reisinger’s work creates scenes that are oftentimes impossible to exist.

Andrés Reisinger ’s floating site-specific installation will give human swimmers a vantage point for reef exploration and give local marinelife a variety of nooks and crevices offering seclusion and security. More importantly, during Miami Art Week , the iridescent pink beacons — always visible from the shore — will anchor and channel the energy of collective guided meditations focusing on the wellbeing of the endangered ecosystem that surrounds them.

PATRIA Y VIDA ANTONIA WRIGHT & RUBÉN MILLARES

As Cuban-Americans, Antonia Wright and Rubén Millares (known as artist duo Wright Millares) grew up participating in protests with their parents in Miami and believe public demonstration is one of the most effective means of civic engagement. Patria y Vida is a large-scale light sculpture that celebrates people’s right to peacefully protest by using the barricade as a symbol of global resistance. On July 11th, 2021, many were sentenced to prison after taking place in anti-government protests in Cuba, where unauthorized public gatherings are illegal. These island-wide demonstrations have been the largest in Cuba since Fidel Castro came to power in 1959. The phrase Patria y Vida is chanted in the streets and has become an anti-communism anthem for Cubans.

For No Vacancy, Wright Millares have echoed the activist gesture from the Pro-Democracy Protests in Hong Kong, where protestors subverted the use of barricades set out by police and repurposed them to create an insurgent structure for their own protection. For this new sculpture, 24 crowd-control barricades with LED lights are bound together in a disorderly composition to memorialize global acts of nonviolent resistance. Patria y Vida is part of a series of works in which Wright Millares explore the sculptural and symbolic potential of standard steel barricades. Over the last few years, authorities throughout the world have deployed them extensively to contain and control protestors. Wright Millares believe these metal barriers directly evoke anxiety, used as architecture to separate and control bodies in public spaces and limit what should be a global human and civil right to protest. Patria y Vida claims space in solidarity with the perseverance of those who continue to protest worldwide.

ABOUT NO VACANCY

No Vacancy is a contemporary art experience, presented by The City of Miami Beach, in collaboration with the Miami Beach Visitor and Convention Authority (MBVCA) that celebrates artists, provokes critical discourse, and invites the public to experience Miami Beach’s famed hotels as destination art spaces. Art will be exhibited throughout twelve hotels in Miami Beach–lobbies, restaurants, lounges, patio areas, rooms, balconies, and swimming pools may serve as the canvas. No Vacancy is committed to providing art experiences that are accessible to everyone, free and open to the public and as well as reinventing Cultural Tourism in Miami Beach, by turning hotels into temporary cultural institutions.

COMMISSIONED BY THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, IN COLLABORATION WITH THE MIAMI BEACH CONVENTION AND VISITORS AUTHORITY. PRESENTED BY NO VACANCY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FAENA MIAMI BEACH

Patria y Vida is a largescale light sculpture that celebrates people’s right to peacefully protest by using the barricade as a symbol of global resistance.

Courtesy of the Artist, No Vacancy, and Faena Art

PAULA DE SOLMINIHAC

Paula de Solminihac

of Nube Lab, a nonprofit organization devoted to work in art and education. Since 2000, she has been conducting constant research into ceramics and particularly their material and symbolic transformation processes. This has led to the recognition of a type of artistic practice associated with research into the creative processes in art and the conflicts between nature and culture.

RANDOM INTERNATIONAL

Established in 2005, Random International is a post-digital art group exploring the impact of technological development on the human condition. Best known for their large-scale interactive installations, the group works across an array of media including sculpture, light, kinetics, video, print, and sound. Led by founders Hannes Koch (b.1975, Germany) and Florian Ortkrass (b.1975, Germany), the group has a studio in London and comprises a global team of complementary talent. Experimental by nature, Random International’s practice is fueled by research and scientific discovery. The group aims to broaden the question of what it is to be alive today by experimenting with how we connect — to different kinds of life, to different views of the world, and to one another.

Landscape painting, classical sculpture and iconography are some of the historical aesthetics that serve as a point of departure for Quayola’s hybrid compositions. His varied practice, all deriving from custom computer software, also includes audiovisual performance, immersive video installations, sculpture, and works on paper. His work has been performed and exhibited in many prestigious institutions worldwide including V&A Museum, London; Park Avenue Armory, New York; National Art Centre, Tokyo; UCCA, Beijing; How Art Museum, Shanghai; SeMA, Seoul; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Ars Electronica, Linz; Sonar Festival, Barcelona and Sundance Film Festival. Also, a frequent collaborator on musical projects, Quayola has worked with composers, orchestras and musicians including London Contemporary Orchestra, National Orchestra of Bordeaux, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Vanessa Wagner, Jamie XX, Mira Calix, Plaid and Tale Of Us. In 2013, Quayola was awarded the Golden Nica at Ars Electronica.

British artist, born and graduated from art school in London where he currently lives and works. Sesti’s work pushes the boundaries of art and science and goes beyond both, exploring the ever-changing relationships between artwork, the viewer and the environment in which they are placed. Both sculptures and paintings perform an interactive role by visually incorporating the location and movement of the viewer by way of vast optical lenses and Moire geometries, reconfiguring the landscape and providing the viewer with a unique and responsive interaction with the artwork. He has collaborated with scientists from space programs to forestry scientist’s laser scanning trees in the rainforests.

ANDRÉS REISINGER

Andrés Reisinger (b. 1990, Argentina) is one of the most sought-after digital artists of the 21C. Originally from Argentina, he now creates carefully curated projects in his studio in Barcelona. His instantly-recognizable dream-like imagery have drawn interest from a plethora of multi-million-dollar collectors, brands and international art galleries alike. He is named as one of “Forbes 30 Under 30” artists creating and designing the future of the arts and is the winner of the “Young Guns” Art Directors Club New York City. His market has grown from strength to strength, with recent works fetching up to half a million dollars auction (The Shipping, $450,000, Nifty Gateway, 22 February 2021).

WRIGHT MILLARES

Over the past ten years, Antonia Wright and Rubén Millares have developed an extensive and experimental body of work. Through a multidisciplinary practice of video, performance, sculpture, sound, and light, Wright Millares’ work physically embodies the mechanics of power dynamics to challenge the absurdity of the hegemonic world order. Wright Millares often use the body as a principal element in their work to question social conventions and explore issues of identity. Their projects are uniquely informed by Wright’s background in poetry and Millares’ foundation in music. Antonia Wright and Rubén Millares are Cuban-American artist born in Miami, FL. Wright received her MFA in Poetry from The New School, New York, NY and completed the General Studies program at the International Center of Photography, New York, NY. Millares received his Masters in Tax from the University of Miami, FL and a BA from Boston College, Boston, MA. along with being a trained musician. Their work is included in the permanent collections of Martin Z. Margulies at the Warehouse, The Bass Museum of Art, Hadley Martin Fisher Collection, and Dan and Katherine Mikesell Collection.

PETROC SESTI

QUAYOLA

(Chile, 1974) is a visual artist and Associate Professor at the School of Art, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and Executive Director

MORNING GLORY

PAULA DE SOLMINIHAC FAENA PRIZE FOR THE ARTS

FIRST MIAMI EDITION PRESENTED BY BOMBAY SAPPHIRE Faena Beach

LIVING ROOM

RANDOM INTERNATIONAL COMMISSIONED BY AORIST PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FAENA ART Faena Beach

EFFETS DE SOIR QUAYOLA

PRESENTED BY FAENA ART IN PARTNERSHIP WITH AORIST Faena Art Project Room

HEART OF OKEANOS

PETROC SESTI

CO-COMMISSIONED BY THE REEFLINE, FAENA ART AND CARBONXINC Faena Hotel Cathedral

PATRIA Y VIDA

ANTONIA WRIGHT & RUBÉN MILLARES

COMMISSIONED BY THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, IN COLLABORATION WITH THE MIAMI BEACH CONVENTION AND VISITORS AUTHORITY. PRESENTED BY NO VACANCY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FAENA MIAMI BEACH Faena Beach

PINK MEDITATION BUOYS ANDRÉS REISINGER

CO-COMMISSIONED BY THE REEFLINE PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FAENA ART Faena Beach

Executive Director: Nicole Comotti

Director of Exhibitions: Ana Clara Silva

Curatorial Advisor: Ximena Caminos

Editorial Director: Gastón Guaglianone

Graphic Designer: Alejandra Román

Art Director: Rafa Olarra

Project Room Manager: Sol Alonso

Producer: Elizabeth Brady

Director of Marketing and Communications: Itzamme Maya

Marketing and Communications Manager: Alessandra Fusillo

Controller: José Soto

© 2022 Faena Art is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that commissions, produces, and houses cross-disciplinary artistic experiences. A catalyst for innovative, site-specific, and immersive practices, Faena Art bridges the popular and the experimental making art accessible to all. Faena Art fosters new models for social interaction transcending the traditional boundaries of art, science, philosophy, and social practice.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Faena Art would like to express sincere gratitude to the individuals and organizations who make this program a reality and without whom, none of this would be possible.

We would like to specially thank our Board of Directors for its continuous support: Germán de Elizalde, Lauren Cramer, Olga Blavatnik and Neisen Kasdin.

A very special thank you to the Faena Rose members who support us year round and are faithful patrons of the arts.

Special thanks to Rohit Anand, Marc Berger, Michele Burger, Michele Caniato, Romilda de Luca, Kajal Doshi, Jaime Duran de Inclán, Marko Karovic, Dilip Mukundan, Brandi Reddick, David García and the Aorist team Pablo RodríguezFraile, Andrea Bonaceto, Aya Mousawi, Cristy Alonso, Vicente Bustamante, and Ana Huete.

Thank you to the City of Miami Beach Administration and City of Miami Beach Commission. A very special thank you to the neighbors of Faena District and the residents of the City of Miami Beach who we hope to support in our mission to create an innovative cultural program that serves the multitude of diverse communities within our city.

WITH THANKS TO

DIGITAL PARTNER

SUSTAINABILITY PARTNER

FAENA ART THANKS ABSOLUT ELYX , AVIÓN TEQUILA , BORDERLESS CAPITAL , BRUICHLADDICH , CHÂTEAU LA GORDONNE , DESOLAS MEZCAL , FEVER TREE LAVAZZA LOUIS XIII LUCID MOTORS MOUNT GAY RUM RED BULL PERRIER REMY XO MARTINI & ROSSI FOR THEIR GENEROUS SUPPORT.

Following past editions in Buenos Aires, the latest iteration of the Prize arrives in Miami for the first time, awarding the winner a total of $100,000 and presenting the winning proposal at Faena Beach.

FAENA PRIZE FOR THE ARTS

PAULA DE SOLMINIHAC (CHILE)

PALOMA BOSQUÊ (BRAZIL) SPECIAL MENTION

JURY 2022

Cecilia Alemani Curator of the 59th Venice Biennale Alexandre Arrechea

Artist Caroline Bourgeois Chief Curator of the Pinault Collection Ximena Caminos Cultural Place-maker

Chus Martínez Director Art Institute at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel

José Roca Artistic Director 23rd Biennale of Sydney

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