EXHIBITION AND TALKS
Artist Talk with Jill Kearney, Elsa Mora and Sandra Ramos. Artists talk and curator tour about our current exhibition. Pan American Art Projects 274 Northeast 67th Street Miami, FL 33138. Sat, January 28, 2023, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST.
Jill Kearny, Elsa Mora, Sandra Ramos: “El sueño que Olvide antes del alba” curated by Claudia Taboada open to January 28 at Panamerican Art Projects Miami
Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 5pm
El sueño que olvidé antes del alba is conceived as a visual poem, and aims to establish a correlation with the Traditional Japanese composition of a haiku, by associating its three lines (phrases) with the three artists; their brief but intense statements are apparently 'simple' in their visual presentation, but carry a strong conceptual message, and require that you close your eyes to capture their essence. This is also a self-referential show, as personal life experiences have been translated into installations, videos, objects, and drawings. The doubt of having just dreamed will always be an open door towards magical realism, the questioning of existence and what surrounds us. The exhibition is a space for meditation but also confrontation.
Sandra Ramos
The Hand of History, 2021-2022. Interactive Video Installation. Multimedia, furniture, white chalk. Soundtrack by Pavel Urkiza.
The hand of history installation was motivated by the memories of my childhood as an xx-century student and the changes in the dynamics of learning after the development of the internet, as well as by my interest in Art as a way to explore, accumulate and transmit human knowledge. This immersive participatory project signals how important it is for local communities to acquire knowledge of their particular past in relation to broader global history. The Installation focus on a critical dialogue with the western version of Universal History as a set of crucial events and influential personalities that occur in a rational, linear, consecutive, and consistent progression, ignoring in many cases cultural, racial, ecological, and gender factors.
SANDRA RAMOS. "Tank Man", 2022. Installation. Multimedia, blackboard. Dimensions variable.
This installation is a tribute to the bravery of people who have stood up to Power throughout history. The works portray in and with white chalk on blackboard dissidents, activists, and political prisoners from around the world who have stood up to totalitarianism, political and economic power, or the preconceived ideas of the cultural or religious establishment, in some cases risking their own lives. These women and men are often unknown or silenced, but their courage and personal sacrifice have undoubtedly been a fundamental factor in the advancement of democracy and human rights in the world.
Tank Man is the nickname of an unidentified Chinese man who stood in front of a column of Type 59 tanks leaving Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 5, 1989, the day after the Chinese government's violent crackdown on the Tiananmen protests.