You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?
“dance naked, grotesquely
before my mirror
waving my shirt round my head
and singing softly to myself”
William Carlos Williams, Danse Russe.
“The organ can be heard playing his music
And conjuring into life the whitewashed walls”
David Ricks, Genius Loci.
AG2023_1066711a
In progress.
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sent to 14n61w
Out to Lunch
Installation view of Out to Lunch, Art & Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, Florida, 2010.
Nodal Sculpture
untitled (sharing in a market-mediated access economy; stadium), 2015.
enamel paint, chipboard, wire, wood, and found coroplast.
“a stay against everything unforeseen” Timothy Liu, Holding Pattern.
Neither rosy nor prim; prefers the chorus to the heap of disturbance.
“Softly–
Yes, that is her patter in the hall.
She has returned.”
–Alfred Kreymborg, Again
“They raise their eyes to her whose grace and wit
Reanimate the shadows of the room,
Her eyes nocturnal beings exquisite
With witchery to make the stillness bloom;”
–Alfred Kreymborg, When They Require Gardens
“The person you are trying
is not accepting. Is not
at this time. Please
again. The person
you are trying is not
in service.
[…] Again laterat this time. Not accepting.”
–Martha Collins, Again later.
Flowing, thin, and indiscernible
Wandering Through Landscapes curated by Hartvest Project (Carola Bravo) and Adriana Meneses.
Elisa Benedetti, Andrés Cabrera-García, Jefreid Lotti, César Rey, Clara Toro, Gustavo Acosta, and Adler Guerrier
An exhibit that invites you to embark on a captivating journey through the contrasting and different ways to see our landscapes. We delve into the essence of distinct yet interconnected worlds: the dynamic urban landscapes that pulse with vibrant energy and the serene rural expanses that breathe tranquility. South Florida’s unique blend of tropical allure and cosmopolitan life is a melting pot of diverse cultures. Through this exhibition, we aim to capture different visions, shedding light on the captivating interplay between those visions.
Adriana Meneses
September 10 through November 5, 2023. At Pinecrest Gardens, 11000 Red Rd, Pinecrest, FL, 33156.
Some faint impressions barely held by this arrangement.
“… some of the fragments of the afternoon might be collected, and I concentrated my attention with careful subtlety to this end” – Eliot
“everyday life is situated somewhere in the rift opened up between the subjective, phenomenological, sensory apparatus of the individual and the reified institution.
[…]To read everyday life, … is therefore to become engaged in an act of poesis.”
-(Kristin Ross, The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life)
A reworked element from the installation, Untitled (Sistrunk–in medias res. Unfurling the presence of Black life), 2020, shown in African-American Research Library and Cultural Center, 2650 Sistrunk Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
And there was no voice in her head,
no whispered intelligence lurking
in the leaves—just an ache that grew
until she knew she’d already lost everything
except desire, the red heft of it
warming her outstretched palm.
Rita Dove, I Have Been a Stranger in a Strange Land
