You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?
Contemporary Art Library – Park McArthur at mumok, Vienna and Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Images courtesy of the artist, MUMOK, Vienna; Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach. Photos by Simon Vogel.
You won’t feel like this forever, unless
forever is here.
From “De Jure Sanguinis”, Kiki Petrosino
Mahara+Co is pleased to present No Place is Far Away , a solo exhibition by Cuban photographer Evelyn Sosa, on view from May 10 – June 6, 2025. In this deeply intimate and political series, Sosa constructs a living archive of the migratory experience. The exhibition emerges from a project supported by the Cuban Migrant Artists Resilience Fellowship, granted by Artists at Risk Connection (ARC) and PEN International.
Rooted in a seemingly simple question — “What object did you take with you when you emigrated?“ — Sosa opens a window into memory, loss, and the emotional gravity of displacement. Each image in the series portrays a personal belonging filled with history and significance: a piece of clothing, a photograph, a letter, a seed. These modest, almost minimal objects serve as emotional anchors — fragments of home that persist across time and distance. They are not merely material remnants, but silent witnesses to identities that refuse to vanish.
Far from a purely documentary approach, No Place is Far Away delves into the sensory and emotional dimensions of migration. Photography becomes a mode of listening: portraits of objects are interwoven with fragments of real-life testimonies, creating a liminal space where past and present gently meet. As Paul Ricoeur once wrote, “memory is not a neutral archive,” a sentiment Sosa affirms in each image — each one an act of evocation, resistance, and care.
While firmly rooted in the Cuban migratory experience, the series resonates on a universal level. In a world increasingly shaped by displacement, this body of work asks: How does identity transform when territory disappears? What remains when everything else is gone?
Ningún lugar está lejos reviewed in Artburst, 050725.
Zura Lagarde, The Silent Pulse Beneath Still Stone, Artmedia Gallery, April 25 – July 30, 2025.
“I perceive the spaces where time flickers—where déjà vu hums like a distant echo, where a breath feels borrowed from another life.”
Through both this developmental and this structural model, psychoanalysis enacts an unprecedented science of mediation: a study of how language and norms inform desires; how desires can only make themselves legible in the distortions of parapraxes, dreams, fumbles, and symptoms; how the self is not self-evident but rather a product of social relations. With its conviction that psychic experience is socially produced, psychoanalytic theory can help explore the ways that circulation impresses upon the psyche: an overemphasis on instantaneous fluid exchange, an overabundance of images, an overweighting of presence, and overvaluing of identity can all preclude or fore-close the functioning of the symbolic. Representation slackens, and an unintegrable real impends. Immersion in the imaginary initiates all kinds of psychic dischord, from fantasies of self-possession and delusions of wholeness, to refusals of the other and proliferating dualities, to paranoiac gusts and polarized fluctuation. Each of these disorders vividly characterizes contemporary media culture and contemporary algorithmic logic.
Anna Kornbluh
Strange Natures features the work of three artists exploring themes of communal care, loss, resilience, and tenderness through the lens of South Florida’s ecology. While the artists use different mediums, they all engage in a process of world-building that feels both of and beyond our natural environment.
The exhibition imagines how our connection to land will change depending on our collective response, whether care or indifference, to the exploitation of our natural ecosystems. By contemplating this relationship within the context of South Florida’s landscape, the artists explore versions of reality that oscillate between dystopia and utopia, present and future, the familiar and strange.
Christine Cortes, Lee Pivnik, and Zoe Schweiger. Curated by Krys Ortega.
Bakehouse Art Complex, April 10, 2025 – July 10, 2025.
We are proud to announce that ‘poemas de sal y tierra (poems of salt and soil),’ a curatorial partnership between FORGOTTEN LANDS and homework, opens Saturday, April 12th at 5pm and runs through May 31st.
Featuring works by Nathalie Alfonso, Stephen Arboite, Jonathan Carela, Raymel Casamayor, Nicole Combeau, Adler Guerrier, Amanda Linares, Elisa Bergel Melo, Devin Osorio, Charlie Quezada, and Victoria Ravelo.
“Cultural identity… is a matter of ‘becoming’ as well as of ‘being.’ It belongs to the future as much as to the past.” — Stuart Hall
‘poemas de sal y tierra (poems of salt and soil)’ is a collective living archive, an ever evolving space where sentiment, symbolism, and memorabilia come together to be held, celebrated, reimagined, and shared. The gallery space functions like a diary written in prose, where the artworks serve as entries–preserving feelings and memories beyond physical artifacts. Artists from the Caribbean and Latin America weave new layers of meaning into inherited stories, places and objects, transforming memory into an active conversation that continues to unfold.
The exhibition explores the idea that we both come from and become the places we move through. Salt and soil, fundamental to land and sea, symbolize ancestral geographies. Through the use of various mediums–painting, drawing, sound, film, photography and sculpture– artists translate ephemeral histories, embodied knowledge and shifting landscapes into tangible artworks, much like poetry makes visible the invisible threads of our existence.
Through their work, the artists transform fragments of themselves into an active, breathing record of resilience and reverence for their roots, lived experiences and their own sense of belonging. This exhibition is ultimately a reflection of how we collect, connect and preserve the intangible, and how we return to it for comfort, clarity, and renewal. Here, collective memory isn’t fixed; it shifts, grows, and evolves through each work.
-curated by FORGOTTEN LANDS and homework
April 12 – May 31, 2025
7338 NW Miami Court, Miami FL, 33150
FORGOTTEN LANDS has emerged as a leading force in contemporary Caribbean art, serving as a vital platform that amplifies voices across the diaspora and launches the careers of emerging artists. Their mission centers on illuminating the often-overlooked narratives of the Caribbean while weaving together the region’s rich historical tapestry.Founded in 2017, founders Cory Torres Bishop and Don Brodie initially conceived FORGOTTEN LANDS as a benefit exhibition in the aftermath of hurricanes Irma and Maria. What began as an immediate response to environmental disaster has evolved into a dynamic 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Today, they forge meaningful collaborations with artists, galleries, institutions, and brands to create transformative projects spanning exhibitions, community events, artist talks, publications, and beyond.
homework, founded by Aurelio Aguiló and Mayra Mejia, is a contemporary art gallery dedicated to innovative curatorial practices and fostering meaningful dialogue. By showcasing diverse artists through multidisciplinary exhibitions, homework aims to connect with global audiences, promote creative innovation, and challenge traditional artistic paradigms.
The exhibition Park McArthur. Contact M brings together, for the first time, artworks made between the 2010s and 2020s. These artworks and the forms they take are guided by personal and social meanings of disability, delay, and dependency.
Co-organized by mumok in Vienna and Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, the exhibition is a collaboration between both institutions and will be presented simultaneously at both locations. Questions of simultaneous experience and access to art and culture shape this project’s format and purpose.
Curated by Matthias Michalka, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien and Susanne Titz and Alke Heykes, Museum Abteiberg, Möchengladbach.
March 15, to September 7, 2025.
This audio guide is an artwork. This audio guide is an exhibition. It is titled
01_Contact_M_EN.mp3
Contact M and contains artworks made in the 2010s and 2020s by Park McArthur.
Contact M was recorded in German and English.
Some artworks are only exhibited here, in this audio guide. Some artworks
were on view from March to September, 2025 at the Museum Abteiberg in
Mönchengladbach, Germany and mumok in Vienna, Austria. Reading or listening
to Contact M keeps it open as an exhibition.
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Freestyle exhibition. April 28 – June 24, 2001. Curated by Thelma Golden with the support of curatorial assistant Christine Y. Kim.
The Scholl lecture series, featuring the premier cultural creatives of our time, kicks off 2025 with one of the most influential people in the contemporary art world—Thelma Golden, Ford Foundation director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Streamed live on January 31, 2025.